Richard Bach Quotes

I like to laugh at dark things.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I quite like dark humor.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

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

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

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

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

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.