Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Finding humor in tough situations is essential for coping with life's challenges.
In this quote, Stephen King emphasizes the importance of laughter and levity even in difficult circumstances. He suggests that if one cannot find a way to laugh or celebrate amidst adversity, it reflects a deeper despair or a lack of engagement with life, indicating a need for a positive perspective.
Themes
LaughterHumorAdversityLifePerspective
In practice
Example use cases
During a tough week at work, I reminded my team of the importance of humor by sharing this quote.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
Jack KerouacRead
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
Ambrose BierceRead
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael CaineRead
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraRead
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
Lewis CarrollRead