Humor as a Coping Strategy Quotes

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

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

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

My humor was kind of from my dad and all the stuff that we went through, which was a lot of death. My humor was an escape.

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.