Jenji Kohan Quotes

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.