Candace Bushnell Quotes

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse or something like that, so that even helps people when I'm doing comedy; it's all done to make them laugh.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

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

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.