Quotes About Coping

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.

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

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

Is there a tumor in your humor?

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.