Kathleen Hanna Quotes

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

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

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

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

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.

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

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

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

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

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.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.