Niels Bohr Quotes

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.

I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

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

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.

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

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

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.

I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Dark comedy helped me survive.