Allen Klein Quotes

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

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.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

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

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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

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.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

The mad thing is, most of my life, when I'm not in a dark mood, it's been humour that's got me through. The only way to get through this business is by laughing.