Distance Quote by Robert Olen Butler

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

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

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

— Leah Hager Cohen

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

— Jon Lovett

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

— Bill Nye

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

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

— Howard Dean

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

— Stephen Leacock

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

— Mariska Hargitay

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are…

— Christopher Morley

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe