May Sarton Quotes

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

Sometimes I just want to laugh.

I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

It's extremely important for people to be informed and to be educated and to know what's going in their community and in their country, but every now and then you just kind of want to turn the brain off for a little bit and just laugh and be silly.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

A joke is necessary at this time.