The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
James ThurberMan is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James ThurberWhere most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
James ThurberEvery time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber