“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”

“People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”

Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer

“… there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American author and social activist

“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

Christian D. Larson (1874–1962) Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist