Emma Thompson Quotes

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.

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

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.

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.

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.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

I, like many young widows, have very well developed gallows humor.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

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

Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.