Bob Hope Quotes

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

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

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.