Andre Breton Quotes

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

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

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

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

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

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

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Comedy is saving me.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.

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

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.