Jenny Zhang Quotes

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

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.

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

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.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.

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

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.

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

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.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

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 love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

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.

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.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.

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

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.