Self Deprecating Humor Quotes

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

“I don't have but two teeth, but thank the Lord they both hit together.”
― Karen Cecil Smith, Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, 1844-1939

“I must catch up on procrastination.”
― Brian Spellman

“I always saw my life like a sparkler on Fourth of July - better in theory than delivery.”
― Kerry Chaput, My Boring Life

“Yolk grinned. "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing things badly.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

“For most Norwegians just being in the countryside is not enough. They also need to be as far away from any other human being as possible.”
― Dan Elloway, The Xenophobe's Guide to the Norwegians

“Eccentricities, of which I know I have
many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.”
― Jessica Park

“On her bad days, she felt like a dead albatross would be more appropriate headgear for her, suiting her mood and her apparent role in life.”
― Martha Wells, The Gate of Gods

“Damn it, Nita. If you fuck this up because of such a stupid mistake, you'll never live it down. No shit, because I'll never live.”
•pg.230 - Nita's inner monologue”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“The patient does not make light of manifestations of herself anymore, does not so often laugh or jeer at them, even if she still unconsciously passes them over or ignores them, even in the subtle way her parents dealt with the child before she had words to express her needs.”
― Alice Miller, Drama of Being a Child Book Club