Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

Adversity creates comedy.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Every burden is a blessing.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.