Tom Robbins Quotes

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.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

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

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

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

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I try to find humor in everything.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

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.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.