Shana Alexander Quotes

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

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.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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.

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

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

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

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.

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.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

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.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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