Memes are meant to make people smile and laugh. Memes are meant to be full of silly jokes and light-hearted humor. Sometimes memes speak truth, though. Aside from the jokes, memes can be used to relay some serious messages in an easier and kind of interesting way. The world is a hard place to live in, sometimes all people can do is laugh about the things that make them stressed.

The media is frightening, everything is expensive, and times are tough all around. One way to feel better about it all, though, is to remember that everyone is going through it. They say laughter is the best medicine, and it's true. So, using memes to deal with the terrible things everyone goes through is just natural.

The web likes to make light of serious situations, so here are 25 memes both funny and sad. Speaking the truth and doing it in a kind of silly way.