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Quotes About Emotion

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
~ Larry Gelbart
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
~ Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
~ George Saintsbury
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
~ Groucho Marx
One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.
~ Mireille Guiliano
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
~ Bill Hicks
You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.
~ Dylan Moran
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.
~ Tina Fey, Bossypants
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
~ Mark Twain
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
~ Walt Disney
Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.
~ Joe Elliott
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
~ Alice Meynell
American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
~ Bill Bailey
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
~ Richard Peck
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Mirth is God's medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
He kills her in her own humor.
~ William Shakespeare
I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!
~ Denis Leary
I love you above all things, even pie.
~ Christopher Moore, Fool
His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
~ Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart.
~ Steven Wright