29 Quotes About Gallows-humor

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

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

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.

We're suicidal, not innumerate.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

Fell?' he asked. 'Or was pushed?'Anton shrugged again. 'It hardly makes a difference,' he said, 'when you are the man at the bottom of the stairs.

I'd like a break. I'm forty-six, so the undertow is beginning to get to me.""Then what are you good for?" she asked, in a kind tone."Oh, a man around the house has his uses. A dildo; an ear to talk to; two arms around you; a voice from the next room when you're lonesome.""I have a dog to talk to.""That might be a deal killer.