Robin Williams Quotes

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

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.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

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 don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Even one death is horrible.

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Death always seems to be around me.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

It's terrible when anyone passes too soon.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225