Hugh Laurie Quotes

We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

If I ever feel like, 'Oh, my life!' or get upset by silly things like a photographer, or if someone has written something nasty that's upset me, I just think, 'Worse things happen at sea.'

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.