Appreciate Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn…

— Joan D. Chittister

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

— Conrad Hyers

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments…

— Mark Twain

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

— Ricky Gervais

“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same…

— David Rakoff

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

— John Perry Barlow

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes,…

— Alissa Nutting

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

— Peggy Noonan