Gallows Humor Quotes

• Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

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  Bruce Campbell

  Fall   People   Laughing  

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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

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  J.R. Ward

  Doctors   House   Gallows  

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.305, Penguin

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

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  John Green

  Cancer   Thinking   Dying  

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

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• God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez, who was your idol growing up? Boris Karloff? (Amanda) Hannibal, actually. (Kyrian) You're trying to scare me, aren't you? Well, it won't work. I grew up in a house with an angry poltergeist and two sisters who used to conjure demons just to fight them. Buster, I've seen it all and your gallows humor isn't working on me. (Amanda)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up   Fighting   Idols  

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

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  Terry Pratchett

  Death   Thinking   Laughing  

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• 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.

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  Sigmund Freud

  Reality   Ego   Suffering  

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