Rajneesh Quotes

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!