Top Gallows Humor Quotes

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

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

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

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.

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.

I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thin...

His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect...

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat a...