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Quotes About Black humor

It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to it on the sci-fi in Glasgow with 'Under the Skin.'
~ Lynne Ramsay
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~ Barbet Schroeder
I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.
~ Kurt Vile
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
~ Malgorzata Szumowska
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.
~ Malgorzata Szumowska
My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
~ Alan Moore
Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you." I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.
~ Ann Rule
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~ Barbet Schroeder
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
~ Jerry Leiber
Manche von seinen Witzen sind schon ein bißchen heftig, aber schließlich ist er tot.Da würde wohl jeder einen schwarzen Humor entwickeln.
~ Kate Harrison
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.
~ Thomas Ligotti
it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance.' 'I think you underestimate Ender.' 'But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?' 'Sir, those words sound like treason.' 'It was black humor.
~ Orson Scott Card
Few Westerners understand the post-Soviet soul like Lawrence Sheets. Whether it is his hair-raising stories of the region's myriad armed conflicts or the black humor with which he captures the moral and physical impoverishment of a collapsing empire, Sheets brilliantly condenses twenty tumultuous years into an eminently readable tale.
~ Unknown
1. Deadly black humor of reality leads to a gene mutation of thinking. 2. 1. Inspiration is like a siren singing. 2. Golden petals of autumn as a dream of death, and golden nostalgia for the past life. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
Our reality is getting funnier and funnier, comical nightmare of black humor, and funny and scary, shock humor. The comical, dreamlike paradoxes of egoism are becoming more and more.
~ Unknown