Existentialism Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

— David Cronenberg

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

— Niels Bohr

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

— Werner Heisenberg

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that…

— Gene Weingarten

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

— Erma Bombeck

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

— Art Buchwald

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

— Niels Bohr

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

— Jim Morrison

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has…

— Mike Epps

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

— George Harrison

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're…

— Billy Collins