James McBride Quotes

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

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

A man can laugh while he suffers.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

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?

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

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

Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

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