A Quote by John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

John Perry Barlow

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John Perry Barlow
American - Writer
October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Marianne Moore

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Rebecca Miller

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

Jerry Bridges

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

Gail Simone

Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.

Joan D. Chittister

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

John Fowles

Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

Alina Bronsky

I really wasn't raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always more of a cultural thing and that's a part of me and my ancestry that I always loved. I mean, I think that a lot of my humor is 'Jewish humor' at its root. And so culturally I love that part of myself.

Randy Rainbow

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

Omar Khayyam

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

Vanessa Redgrave

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Eric San

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Joshua Ferris

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.