Laughing in the Face of Adversity Quotes

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It's a source of strength.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.