Lynda Barry Quotes

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

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.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

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

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

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

I don't have time to be depressed.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

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.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.