Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.