Terry Pratchett Quotes

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

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

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

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

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

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.