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Quotes About Resilience

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
~ Roy Orbison
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
~ Benjamin Franklin
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.
~ Gilda Radner
Humor heals the heckler.
~ Gerald C. Meyers
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
~ Horatio Nelson
To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.
~ Joan Rivers
Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.
~ Arland Ussher
The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.
~ John Morreall
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
~ Bill Murray
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~ Max Eastman
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.
~ Max Brooks
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
~ Isaac Asimov
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.
~ Daniel Tosh
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
~ Hermann Goring
My experience is to deal with things through humor.
~ Michael J. Fox
It's good to be here. I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It's not working out too well.
~ Brian Regan
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
~ James Dashner, The Maze Runner
False hope is better than no hope at all.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
~ Andrew Solomon
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
~ Bill Mauldin