William Butler Yeats Quotes

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, 'Don't you hate it when...' And it's, 'Oh, my God! Of course!'

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.

Men need to laugh more.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

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

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

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

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.