Jeremy Hardy Quotes

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

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.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

I don't have many sad days.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.