Peter Hedges Quotes

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.

If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

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.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

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

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

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

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.