Daley Thompson Quotes

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me.

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

Humor is my default mode.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.