279 Best Joker Quotes: Appreciate The Madness (2023)

1. You actually believed that all it would take is a few chemicals, a couple of days in drug-induced isolation and a cheap little nervous breakdown and you'd have me all figured out? Like there was some rabbit hole you could follow me down to understanding?. — Batman #681

2. “Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.”

3. Why don’t we cut you up into little pieces and feed you to your pooches? Hm? And then we’ll see how loyal a hungry dog really is.” – The Joker

4. I'm not mad at all. I'm just differently sane.. — Batman and Robin #13

5. “April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!”

6. The pen is truly mightier than the sword!. — The Dark Knight

7. “You can’t kill me without becoming like me! I can’t kill you without losing the only human being who can keep up with me! Isn’t it ironic?”

8. “Let’s put a smile on that face!”

9. I've been using it as a journal, but also as a joke diary, if I have any thoughts or frustrations. I think I told you, I'm pursuing a career in standup comedy.. — Joker

10. Why so serious? ” ― The Joker

11. I took Gotham's white knight and I brought him down to our level.. — The Dark Knight

12. “One by One, they’ll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall.”

13. ‎Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos…” ― The Joker

14. Devil is double is deuce, my dear doctor ... and joker trumps deuce.. — Batman #681

15. “I suppose I’m going to have to teach you a lesson so you can better follow in his footsteps. Nah, I’m just gonna keep beating you.”

16. “When I get out of here I will write my name in blood on every street corner. I’ll carve it on every corpse.”

17. As you know, madness is like gravity… all it takes is a little push.” ― The Joker

18. April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!” – The Joker

19. “If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.”

20. “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 dairy. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”

21. I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.. — The Dark Knight

22. “Desire becomes surrender. Surrender becomes power.”

23. Forgive my laughter. I have a condition.. — Joker

24. 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.. — Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

25. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else...only you won't admit it!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

26. You'll never be sad, and you'll never be lonely. You'll always have me to dance with.. — Batman Confidential #12

27. “I’m not political. I’m just trying to make people laugh.”

28. Don't go into the light, bats! It's no fair! They won't let me in!. — Batman: Arkham Night

29. Let’s put a smile on that face!” – The Joker

30. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.. — Batman: The Killing Joke

31. “You know, you remind me of my father. I hated my father.”

32. You can’t rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don’t we?” – The Joker

33. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them.. — The Dark Knight

34. ‎Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos.. — The Dark Knight

35. “Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are.”

36. If you don't like the movie, I've got slides.. — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

37. Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them!. — The Dark Knight

38. Faced with the inescapable fact that human existence is mad, random and pointless, one in eight of them crack up and go stark slavering buggo! Who can blame them? In a world as psychotic as this...any other response would be crazy!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

39. “My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. She told me I had a purpose to bring laughter and joy to the world.”

40. “Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look at the real Harvey Dent, and all the heroic things he’s done.”

41. “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.”

42. If I weren't crazy, I'd be insane!. — Batman: Dark Detective

43. “Their morals, their code; it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. You’ll see- I’ll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They’ll eat each other. See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.”

44. “I’ve been using it as a journal, but also as a joke diary, if I have any thoughts or frustrations. I think I told you, I’m pursuing a career in standup comedy.”

45. You can't rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don't we? That's OK, I came prepared.. — The Dark Knight

46. “When the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other.”

47. I don't know what it was that bent your life out of shape, but who knows? Maybe I've been there too. Maybe I can help. We could work together. I could rehabilitate you. You needn't be out there on the edge anymore. You needn't be alone. We don't have to kill each other. What do you say?. — Batman: The Killing Joke

48. What doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger!” ― The Joker

49. Why so serious?. — The Dark Knight

50. You think it all breaks down into symbolism and structures and hints and clues. No, Batman, that's just Wikipedia.. — Batman #681

51. “You look good. Been working out? You could probably use a little sun. Then again, who am I to talk?”

52. Don't test the monster in me!. — The Dark Knight

53. Haven't you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?. — Batman (1989)

54. You can't kill me without becoming like me! I can't kill you without losing the only human being who can keep up with me! Isn't it ironic?. — Batman #663

55. “If the police expect to play against the Joker, they’d better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!”

56. Costume's a bit theatrical, but hey, who am I to talk?. — Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

57. “You don’t listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week. ‘How’s your job?’ ‘Are you having any negative thoughts?’ All I have are negative thoughts.”

58. Not clown—Joker.. — Joker

59. If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” ― The Joker

60. They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper!” – The Joker

61. Smile because it confuses people.. — The Dark Knight

62. You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.” – The Joker

63. Have you heard this one? It'll kill you, Batman!. — Batman (1966)

64. “Rumor has it, Christmas is a time to share with family.”

65. “See I’m a man of simple taste. I like things such as gunpowder… Dynamite and… Gasoline!”

66. Very neat! That ugly head of yours does have a brain!. — The Dark Knight

67. “There is no Yoda - there’s no one who points you in the right direction. You’ve got to figure that out by yourself.”

68. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don't. They think that we'll just sit there and take it, like good little boys! That we won't werewolf and go wild!. — Joker

69. Now, I see the funny side. Now I'm always smiling.. — The Dark Knight

70. I always wanted to see my dame in lights. Heh. Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it.. — Emperor Joker

71. “Do I look like I’m joking?”

72. “If you don’t like the movie, I’ve got slides.”

73. We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us.” – The Joker

74. Does it depress you to know just how alone you really are?. — The Dark Knight

75. I can't wait to show you my toys.. — Suicide Squad

76. I'm only laughing on the outside. My smile is just skin deep. If you could see inside, I'm really crying. You might join me for a weep.. — Batman: The 1989 Movie Adaptation

77. It's a funny world we live in.. — The Dark Knight

78. Why be a disfigured outcast when I can be a notorious crime god? Why be an orphaned boy when you can be a superhero?. — Batman #663

79. Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press? This town needs an enema!. — Batman (1989)

80. I don't know why everyone is so rude, I don't know why you are; I don't want anything from you.. — Joker

81. You know, it only hurts when I laugh.. — Batman: Under the Red Hood

82. I like you, but I want to kill you.” – The Joker

83. “Gotta hand it to you, nice scheme. Costumes a bit theatrical, but hey, who am I to talk?”

84. Well look at the size of that cake, man!. — Batman: The Animated Series

85. “As though we were made for each other… Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I’ll rip their lungs out.”

86. Hello Late-Show lovers...and lovers of the Late-Show!. — Batman: The Laughing Fish

87. There's plenty wrong with me. Take my blood, for example. I wish somebody would—this stuff is killing me!. — Batman: Arkham City

88. “If you are good at something, never do it for free.”

89. The pen, is truly mightier than the sword!” – The Joker

90. “I wanted to see what you’d do. And you didn’t disappoint… You let five people die. Then, you let Dent take your place. Even to a guy like me, that’s cold.”

91. Do you know how I got these scars?. — The Dark Knight

92. I'm a man of simple taste. I like things such as gunpowder, dynamite and gasoline!. — The Dark Knight

93. Do I look like I’m joking?. — Joker

94. Lady, you're harder to kill than a cockroach on steroids!. — Batman: Dark Victory

95. Laugh and the world laughs with you!. — Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

96. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want.”

97. Over?! Why, my dear, delusional Dark Knight, it hasn't even begun!. — Batman: Arkham Asylum

98. If the police expect to play against the Joker, they’d better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!. — Batman #1

99. “And I thought my jokes were bad.”

100. In my dream, the world had suffered a terrible disaster. A black haze shut out the sun, and the darkness was alive with the moans and screams of wounded people. Suddenly, a small light glowed. A candle flickered into life, symbol of hope for millions. A single tiny candle, shining in the ugly dark. I laughed and blew it out.. — Batman: Shadow of the Bat #37

101. “Give a man a mask and he will become his true self.”

102. Tell your men they work for me now! This is my city!. — The Dark Knight

103. By clinging to reality, you’re denying the reality of the situation.. — Batman: The Killing Joke

104. “No matter the situation, always wear a smile.”

105. Tell me something, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?. — Batman (1989)

106. “See, this is how crazy Batman’s made Gotham! If you want order in Gotham, Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in. Oh, and every day he doesn’t, people will die, starting tonight. I’m a man of my word.”

107. Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there” – The Joker

108. You get what you f**king deserve!. — Joker

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

110. 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.. — Batman: The Killing Joke

111. It's funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one's laughing now!. — Joker

112. Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?. — Batman: The Killing Joke

113. A bit of advice...don't ever apologize to no one for the way you look.. — Joker

114. Why don't you just give me a call when you start taking things a little more seriously?. — The Dark Knight

115. “What doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger!”

116. As though we were made for each other…Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you 'beast,' I'll rip their lungs out.. — Batman (1989)

117. Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg! The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away!. — Batman: The Animated Series

118. I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it's a comedy.. — Joker

119. “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos…”

120. I'm gonna make this pencil disappear.. — The Dark Knight

121. “This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them!”

122. “I used to think that my life was a tragedy. But now I realize, it’s a comedy.”

123. And I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.” – The joker

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

125. They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out like a leper.. — The Dark Knight

126. “Tell me something, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

127. “It’s true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it’s sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarangs, you’re just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.”

128. “You can’t rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don’t we? That’s ok, I came prepared, it’s a funny world we live in. Speaking of which, you know how I got these scars?”

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

130. “They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dance routine — and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it.”

131. “A man with nothing to fear is a man with nothing to love.”

132. For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.. — Joker

133. “Why don’t we cut you up into little pieces and feed you to your pooches? Hmm? And then we’ll see how loyal a hungry dog really is.”

134. The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That's what cracks me up each time!. — Batman #681

135. Haven’t you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?” – The Joker

136. “Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick.”

137. Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives.. — Batman (1989)

138. They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” ― The Joker

139. “Oh, what the heck, I’ll laugh anyway. HA HA HA HA HA HAA!”

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

141. You know, kids, a lot has changed while your old Uncle Joker's been away. New Gotham, new rules, even a new Batman. But now I’m tanned, I’m rested, and I’m ready to give this old town a wedgie again!. — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

142. “I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.”

143. Let's take a moment to reflect on the passing of a man who was more than just another do-gooder in tights. He was the best arch-nemesis a sociopath could ask for.. — Emperor Joker

144. You see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are.. — The Dark Knight

145. “Tell your men they work for me now. This is my city!”

146. “Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there.”

147. “Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn’t that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, you decide what’s right or wrong. The same way that you decide what’s funny or not.”

148. “You can't sell dreams to someone who has walked through nightmares.”

149. The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.” ― The Joker

150. If you actually let me finish a sentence, you might learn something! You might learn we're not so different. You might even learn something about yourself.. — Batman: Arkham Origins

151. Let's put a smile on that face!. — The Dark Knight

152. “I just don’t want to feel so bad anymore.”

153. “Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying!”

154. No matter the situation, always wear a smile.. — Joker

155. Without Batman, crime has no punchline.. — Batman: The Animated Series

156. April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!. — Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

157. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other.. — The Dark Knight

158. I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Nooo, thank you!. — The New Batman Adventures

159. Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?. — Joker

160. “It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. Everything burns!”

161. Everybody's telling me my standup is ready for the big clubs.. — Joker

162. I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it.. — The Dark Knight

163. You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.. — The Dark Knight

164. “The pen, is truly mightier than the sword!”

165. “It’s funny, when I was a little boy, and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one’s laughing now.”

166. “Very poor choice of words.”

167. 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.” – The Joker

168. Wait 'til they get a load of me.. — Batman (1989)

169. It's true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it’s sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarangs, you’re just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy!. — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

170. A joke a day keeps the gloom away!. — Batman (1966)

171. All I have are negative thoughts.. — Joker

172. “Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… *do* things.”

173. “Why so serious? ”

174. “I’m not exactly sure what happened. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!”

175. Life's a bowl of cherries and this is the pits.. — Batman: The Killing Joke

176. You look good. Been working out? You could probably use a little sun. Then again, who am I to talk?. — Batman: Under the Red Hood

177. If you’re good at something, never do it for free.. — The Dark Knight

178. A man with nothing to fear is a man with nothing to love.. — The Dark Knight

179. That's not funny.... — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

180. Ladies and Gentlemen! You've read about it in the papers! Now witness, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you: the average man.. — Batman: The Killing Jok

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

182. You can't win anyway... You see, I hold the winning card!. — Batman #1

183. “A little louder, lamb chop. I think you may have a collapsed lung. That always impedes the oratory.”

184. I hope my death makes more cents than my life.. — Joker

185. If you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!. — Batman: Mad Love

186. Nobody panics when things go. according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying!” ― The Joker

187. And here we go!. — Batman (1989)

188. “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.”

189. I feel like I know you. I've been watching you forever.. — Joker

190. You complete me.. — The Dark Knight

191. Do I look like the kind of clown that can start a movement?. — Joker

192. It'd be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.. — Batman Beyond

193. “Batman… Batman… Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press? This town needs an enema!”

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

195. You think he's really gonna fix your nasty case of Joker-itis? Not a chance. I'm chronic, Brucie. I'm lingering.. — Batman: Arkham Knight

196. It's not about the money, it's about sending a message. Everything burns!. — The Dark Knight

197. Batman, darling.. — Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

198. “You see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are.”

199. Very poor choice of words.” ― The Joker

200. I'm not political. I'm just trying to make people laugh.. — Joker

201. Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them!” – The Joker

202. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

203. “I like you, but I want to kill you.”

204. You see, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.. — The Dark Knight

205. “Don’t test the monster in me!”

206. “I now do what other people only dream.”

207. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other.” – The Joker

208. And I thought my jokes were bad.. — The Dark Knight

209. I am not someone who is loved. I'm an idea. A state of mind.. — Suicide Squad

210. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”

211. Live...and in person! The Caliph of Clowns, the Grand Mogul of Mountebanks, the one and only Joker! Prerecorded for this time zone.. — The Sign of the Joker

212. “The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That’s what cracks me up each time!”

213. What doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger!. — The Dark Knight

214. “They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same.”

215. Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining what is killing you inside.” ― The Joker

216. They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dance routine—and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it.. — Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

217. “When they treat you like a joke, leave them like its funny.”

218. Ladies and murderers, welcome to the big fight!. — Batman: Arkham Asylum

219. I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.. — Batman (1989)

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

221. Their morals, their code—it's a bad joke.. — The Dark Knight

222. “A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”

223. When they treat you like a joke, leave them like it's funny.. — The Dark Knight

224. Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can't face them, we deny reason itself!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

225. “Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself!”

226. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world’s first fully functioning homicidal artist.. — Batman (1989)

227. Here's the cold, hard truth Bats...I don't hate you 'cause I'm crazy...I'm crazy 'cause I hate you.. — Batman: Cacophony

228. “We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us.”

229. 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.. — The Dark Knight

230. Notice the hideously bloated sense of humanity's importance. Also note the club-footed social conscience and the withered optimism. It's certainly not for the squeamish, is it? Most repulsive of all, are its frail and useless notions of order and sanity.. — Batman: The Killing Joke

231. “You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.”

232. “You didn’t think I’d risk losing the battle for Gotham’s soul in a fist fight with you? No. You need an ace in the hole. Mine’s Harvey.”

233. 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!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

234. “The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.”

235. “I don’t wanna kill you, what would I do without you? Go back to rippin’ off mob dealers… no, no, no… no you, you complete me.”

236. Oh, Batman, if you had the guts for that kind of fun you would've done it years ago. I, on the other hand.... — Batman: The Brave and the Bold

237. “Ladies and murderers, welcome to the big fight! Batman, you’re going down!”

238. “I know the voices in my head aren’t real, but sometimes their ideas are absolutely awesome.”

239. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, you decide what's right or wrong. The same way that you decide what's funny or not.. — Joker

240. As you know, madness is like gravity: All it takes is a little push.. — The Dark Knight

241. “And he didn’t die all at once. It was hours before the screaming stopped. I almost didn’t get to sleep that night. That was the last time I’d used crushed glass.”

242. C'mon Bats, get crazy. It's the only way to beat me!. — Batman: Arkham Asylum

243. “I am not someone who is loved. I’m an idea. A state of mind.”

244. 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.. — Joker

245. “It’s like anything in life, visualizing the old man you’re going to become: as long as you have a clear picture of that – the life you want to lead – eventually you’ll probably get there.”

246. “The strongest hearts have the most scars!”

247. “Not clown—Joker.”

248. His mask is his real face.. — Batman: Arkham Asylum

249. “I think I felt better when I was locked up in the hospital.”

250. “I hope my death makes more sense cents than my life.”

251. Are you seriously saying there is nothing, nothing special about our relationship?. — The Lego Batman Movie

252. “Sometimes you have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you.”

253. 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?. — Batman #681

254. You know, you remind me of my father. I hated my father.. — The Dark Knight

255. I don't care what happens to the world, and I don't play nice with others!. — Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe

256. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?. — Joker

257. “For my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.”

258. “Maybe we can share one. You know, they’ll be doubling up, the rate this city’s inhabitants are losing their minds.”

259. One by one, they'll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall.. — Batman: The Man Who Laughs

260. Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick.. — The Dark Knight

261. Laugh it up now!. — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

262. “They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper!”

263. “If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.”

264. The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.. — The Dark Knight

265. “As you know, madness is like gravity… All it takes is a little push.”

266. Kid, I'm the Joker. I don't just randomly kill people. I kill people when it's funny.. — Batman #686

267. I'm not exactly sure what happened. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another. If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

268. This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.. — The Dark Knight

269. If I weren't insane, I couldn't be so brilliant!. — Dreadful Birthday Dear Joker

270. Where, oh where has my little Bat gone? Oh where, oh where can he be? His cowl, his scowl, his temper so foul. I do hope he's coming for me.. — Batman: Arkham Origins

271. We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no Sanity Clause!. — Batman: The Killing Joke

272. 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?. — Batman: The Killing Joke

273. Yet we're linked, you and I. Like comedy and tragedy. Two sides, same coin.. — The Batman (2004)

274. “All I have are negative thoughts.”

275. “To me, love is about being able to see light inside of a person who sees nothing but darkness.”

276. “I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman!”

277. My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. She told me I had a purpose to bring laughter and joy to the world.. — Joker

278. “You know, it only hurts when I laugh. But hey… I gotta know. Who are you? You said we knew one another. You do seem really familiar. We double at the prom? Or maybe blow up a school bus together?”

279. “I’ve got nothing left to lose, nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but a comedy.”