Finding Humor in Difficult Situations Quotes

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

All crises, once averted, become jokes.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.