Emile Durkheim Quotes

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Does anyone remember laughter?

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

I very rarely get actually sad when ending a movie.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.