Niels Bohr Quotes

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

I mean I'm one of those people that laugh at a funeral. And it's always the worst time, but there's always a place to find something funny.

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

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.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

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

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

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

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

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.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

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.

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.

I always tried to make people laugh. I attribute that to - I come from a family of divorce. It was a way to distract myself from stuff. I always thought it was interesting that my brother and I existed in this really tight bond, and we would just take the piss out of pretty much everything. I knew I wanted to be an actor so it would be great if I could make people laugh while I was doing this, because I could be other characters and other people, and I could hide behind things. It was a great out for me, and a mode of expression.