Here’s how to live: Laugh at life. | Derek Sivers
Gallows humor is also a kind of hope. If we can still laugh, we can still hope. Not with a “things are going to be OK” kind of hope. But with a no-matter-how-terrible-things-are-they’re-somehow-still-OK kind of hope. That kind of hope requires a deep laugh, not a cheap laugh. The cheap, dismissive, don’t-go-there-just-keep-it-lite laughs are actual
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
First you need a sense of humor, which is based on an understanding as to how things work.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
humor is an essential part of spontaneity, an essential part of playfulness, an essential part of the creativity that we need to solve problems, no matter how ‘serious’ they may be.
John Cleese • "Creativity in Management"
John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life, and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious. Solemnity, on the other hand, I hones... See more
Visakan Veerasamy • Are You Serious?
I don’t see humor as some sort of shrunken or deficient cousin of “real” writing. Being funny is about as deep and truthful as I can be. When I am really feeling life and being truthful, the resulting prose is comic. The world is comic. It’s not always funny but it is always comic. Comic, for me, means that there is always a shortfall between what
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