Suzanne Collins Quotes

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

Instead of letting anxiety run you, try voicing it. Voice it in your comedy. Voice it in a script. Just voice it, and it'll help you release it.

I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.