Humorless People Quotes

#1. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.

Garrison Keillor

#2. We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.

David Pajo

#3. There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

#4. Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

#5. Beware the humorless. People who are all too serious are missing a key aspect of intelligence, which is perspective!

Catherine Carrigan

#6. When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Beth Moore

#7. Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

Moliere

#8. We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Patrick Chappatte

#9. I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but ... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

Ian MacKaye

#10. People don't want to think ... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

Roxane Gay

#11. Integrity is like virginity: once lost, never recoverable

Julian Barnes

#12. It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

Katharine Whitehorn

#13. Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

Marlo Morgan

#14. Love isn't safe. Love is a blinding flash in the dark. It is a leap over a cliff. It is a breathless dive to the bottom of the ocean...

Dorothy Evelyn Smith

#15. I'm a...paperback, write-in-the-margins kind of girl.

Jay Asher

#16. The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

Philippe Petit

#18. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga

#19. I don't want to trudge up insane mountains or through war-torn lands. Just a nice stroll through the hill and dale. But now I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see in a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory.

Maira Kalman

#20. People's hearts color the heart of the earth and the earth colors the hearts of people.

Ilchi Lee

#21. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.

Dean Koontz

#22. Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it and afterwards that person felt better.

Martel, Yann

#23. A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.

Robert J.A. Gilbert

#24. So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Sarah Dessen

#25. The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Publilius Syrus

#26. His laughter made me laugh, his thoughts made me think, and his silence made me listen to each intake of his breath.

Charlie N. Holmberg