Arland Ussher quotes

“Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.”
-- Arland Ussher

#Laughter Quotes #Despair Quotes

“After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.”

“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.”

“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”

“What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”

“You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.”

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”