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Quotes About Humor

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.
~ Mitch Hedberg
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
~ Freddie Mercury
What a sad business is being funny!
~ Charlie Chaplin
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
~ Milan Kundera
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
~ Peter Steele
Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
~ Dave Barry
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
~ Rick Moody
Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.
~ Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
~ Tony Hancock
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
~ Tony Hancock
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
~ John Green
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
~ Gene Weingarten
Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?
~ Jay Leno
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
~ Richard Russo
I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.
~ David Wong
Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.
~ Laurel Nakadate
The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.
~ George Harrison
I'm sad, but I'm laughing.
~ Alanis Morissette
Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.
~ David Letterman
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.
~ Emo Philips