40 Deep Joker Quotes That Will Make You Stop and Think

1. “As you know, madness is like gravity: All it takes is a little push.” - The Dark Knight

2. “I’ll tell you what’s changed. I’m not alone anymore. That’s what you should be talking about.”

3. “I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger.”

4. “I used to think life was a tragedy, but now I realize it's a comedy!”

5. “Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining what is killing you inside.”

6. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.”

7. “How many can die in your arms before you grow numb to death? How many dead eyes can you look into before you die inside yourself?”

8. “When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!”

9. “The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.”

10. “If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”

11. “When they treat you like a joke, leave them like it’s funny.”

12. “Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them!”

13. “Haven’t you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?”

14. "When the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other."

15. "You know, it only hurts when I laugh."

16. "I'm not good at future planning. I do not plan at all. Don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. Do not have a day planner and don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."

17. "They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out like a leper."

18. "Do you know how many times we've come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles!"

19. "Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can't face them, we deny reason itself!"

20. "Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth: There's no going back. You've changed things forever."

21. "A man with nothing to fear is a man with nothing to love."

22. "The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't."

23. "His mask is his real face."

24. "All I have are negative thoughts.

25. "You really want to know what it feels like to be the clown at midnight? Where there's only ever one joke and it's always on you? Well, here you are. Now do you get it?"

26. "I'm not mad at all. I'm just differently sane.

27. "Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy."

28. "If you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!"

29. "Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away forever."

30. "Yes, memory's so treacherous. One moment, you're lost in a carnival of delight: childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy floss. The next, it takes you somewhere you don't want to be. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you’d rather forget. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, no?"

31. "Parting is such sweet sorrow, dearest. Still, you can't say we didn't show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there in the asylum. Just don't forget: If it ever gets too tough, there's always a place for you here."

32. “Until a little while ago, it was like nobody ever saw me. Even I didn’t know if I really existed.”

33. “You remember how you used to tell me that God gave me this laugh for a reason? That, I had a purpose? Laughter and joy—that whole thing.”

34. “It’s funny, I was thinking the other day, why are rich people so confused by the poor people? Because they don’t make any sense!”

35. “Comedy is subjective, isn’t that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, you decide what’s right or wrong. What’s real or what’s made up. The same way you decide what’s funny or not.”

36. “What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a system that abandons him and treats him like trash?… I’ll tell you what you get. You get what you fucking deserve.”

37. “You helped me? By erasing my mind? What few faded memories I had of who I was? You left me in a black hole of rage and confusion. That’s the medicine you practice.”

38. “I am not someone who is loved. I’m an idea, a state of mind."

39. "I’m not a monster… I’m just ahead of the curve.”

40. “I’m only laughing on the outside. My smile is skin deep, if you could see inside I’m really crying. You might join me for a weep.”