“In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.”
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
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Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. VII
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
This is actually a quotation of Socrates, as depicted in Cratylus by Plato
Misattributed
“Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”
Charlie Rose interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LCdcdShdY, 2016
“[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.”
Source: Heaven, Texas
“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”
Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead.
Context: War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.