Pete Davidson Quotes

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

My humor was kind of from my dad and all the stuff that we went through, which was a lot of death. My humor was an escape.

I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny, I don't think you can make fun of ISIS, but almost everything is funny. And If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So I don't mind ethnic humor. I like ethnic humor. I like dialect jokes. Laughter is a very subjective thing. If it's funny to you it's funny. And a lot of things are funny to me.

I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.

You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.