Quotes About Gallows Humor

#1. I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

Amanda Peet

#2. Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

J.R. Ward

#3. I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor.

John Green

#4. New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.

Tom Piazza

#5. Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

John Dryden

#6. We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Famke Janssen

#7. Any port in a storm.

Michael J. Tougias

#8. Fell?' he asked. 'Or was pushed?'

Anton shrugged again. 'It hardly makes a difference,' he said, 'when you are the man at the bottom of the stairs.

Michael Montoure

#9. One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

Daniel J. Goor

#10. Often eating took considerable extra time, since he could hardly see his food, groping with a fork or spoon, enforcedly omnivorous. "Blind men wear spotted pants," Dorothy teased, telling him to wash his...

Edward Hoagland

#11. If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

Jamie Foxx

#12. You're enjoying that a sight more'n you did my corndodgers. Ought I to take offense?

Lori Benton

#13. Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Matt Ridley

#14. I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Norman Lock

#15. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Ausonius

#16. The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

Suzanne Collins

#17. Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

Margaret Atwood

#18. I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

Angela Ruggiero

#19. Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped.
He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety.

Julia Quinn

#20. I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

Lynda Williams

#21. Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.

M. Jones

#22. Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke

Dorothy Koomson

#23. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

Doug Stanhope

#24. We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#25. We're suicidal, not innumerate.

Jasmine Warga

#26. Men die. It's practically what they're for.

Catherynne M Valente

#27. Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Milan Kundera

#28. I believe in the bible. I believe in the one true God. I believe he is the one true God because he's the only one that loved me enough to actually take action in my life.

Jacci Mendelsohn

#29. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Steve Martin

#30. We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Terry Pratchett

#31. Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Elizabeth Wein

#32. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Katherine Paterson

#33. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.

Lao-Tzu

#34. However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.

J.G. Ballard

#35. Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#36. Do you know what else I think? I think I like the idea of Lola Carlyle worrying about me. He slid his knuckle along her jaw to her chin and she held her breath.

Rachel Gibson

#37. The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Sigmund Freud