Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

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.

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.

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 know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

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

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

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.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

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

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up.