Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving for ever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. (It is certainly not the solution of any problems of natural science that is required.)

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer.

— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

(وَأَنَّا لا نَدْرِي أَشَرٌّ أُرِيدَ بِمَنْ فِي الأرْضِ أَمْ أَرَادَ بِهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ رَشَدًا)

the humorous attitude involves an ability to create and adopt novel and unexpected perspectives from which the otherwise painful, frustrating, and threatening incongruities of life may be revealed as potential objects of merriment.
Humor is not simply an emotional response. Rather, it is an ability, talent, or capacity for interpreting life’s incongruities in a manner that brings pleasure rather than pain to the humorist. It differs from the easy pleasures involved in enjoying a joke or a comedy in that humor takes work. The humorist has developed the capability to step outside of a rigidly self-centered and self-interested viewpoint in order to imagine the ways in which seemingly isolated and unrelated phenomena might be connected in previously unanticipated ways. This ability is associated with feelings of competency, mastery, and superiority.

- Laughing at Nothing, Humor as a Response to Nihilism

Approaching the experience of nihilism with a humorous attitude does not serve to eliminate or do away with the nihilist’s suffering, but it helps to make sense of that suffering, allowing the nihilist to endure the unavoidable frustrations of life.

- Laughing at Nothing, Humor as a Response to Nihilism

أنْ يتّخذ المرءُ موقفًا ساخرًا من تناقضات الحياةِ المؤلمة والمُحبِطة والخطيرة هو أَمرٌ يتطلب القدرةَ على إبداع وتبنّي وجهات نظرٍ جديدة وغير متوقعة، ويتضمن تحويل هذه التناقضات إلى مواضيع مُحتملةٍ للبهجة. لا يمثّل حسّ الفكاهة والسخرية ردًا عاطفيًا فقط، بل هو القدرة والموهبة على تفسيرِ تناقضات الحياة بطريقةٍ تَجلِب المتعة بدلًا من الألم للفرد. لكنّها تختلف عن المتعة السهلة التي يحصل عليها المرء من سماع نكتةٍ أو موقفٍ كوميدي من حيثُ أنّ السخرية تتطلب جهدًا، إذ أنّ للفردُ الساخِر القدرةَ على أنْ يترك منظوره الفرديّ الضيق فيتخيّل ارتباطاتٍ جديدة وغير متوقعة بينَ أحداث وظواهر تبدو منفصلةً عن بعضها وغير مترابطة.

أنْ يواجه الفردُ العدميةَ بالسخريةِ هذا لا يعني أنّ السخرية سوف تخلّص العدمي من معاناته، بل أنّها سوف تعطي معنىً ما لهذه المعاناة مما يسمح للفرد بأنْ يحتمل إحباطات الحياة التي لا مفرّ منها.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

- Watchmen, Alan Moore

Tbh, I disagree with many of the book's ideas, but still, humor has very strong therapeutic possibilities, and that is very interesting.

Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world

- Culture and Value, by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Tradition, and our common confidence that there exist things that are truly good and evil, has been lost. “The longing for the beyond has been attenuated. The very models of admiration and contempt have vanished.” All of this has made us “narrower and flatter.” Americans are becoming self-centered relativists, unconcerned with finding permanent truths, but overly concerned with finding a “lifestyle” that suits them and constructing a “self” with which they can be comfortable. “It is nihilism with a happy ending.”¹

— Laughing at Nothing.
¹Allan Bloom, The Closing of The American Mind

The problem with words, though, is that they have a “corrosive function. Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words themselves will be corroded too.” Words, Mishima believes, originally functioned as a means of communication between people, linking humans together in the common experience of reality. Words may have a connection with the world, but they always also distance us from the world of the here-and-now to the extent that they abstract from particular circumstances in order to create readily recognizable generalizations. This is useful and healthy when it fosters connection between individuals and the further uncovering of reality, but too often, as in his own case, the abstraction of words snowballs, and the words themselves become more and more disconnected from their original sources until they possess no discernible connection to reality at all.