Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. Marc Maron More Quotes by Marc Maron More Quotes From Marc Maron I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me. Marc Maron podcasting comedian funny Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication. Marc Maron medication people needs That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining. Marc Maron disappointment challenges people Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head? Marc Maron humor funny thinking It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.' Marc Maron humor dream funny It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me? Marc Maron adults mean years In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. Marc Maron humor disappointment funny You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you. Marc Maron pain-in-life define-you pain Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'. Marc Maron suicidal wife gun I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again. Marc Maron humor real funny We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from. Marc Maron struggle animal art Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. Marc Maron laughter pain disappointment Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.' Marc Maron humor funny thinking If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism. Marc Maron car games jobs The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. Marc Maron distance feel-better book When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life. Marc Maron notebook guitar new-york That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away. Marc Maron humility stupid mistake I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. Marc Maron hallucinations humor funny Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Marc Maron comedy moments writing I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment. Marc Maron humor funny commitment
