John Green Quotes

I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

At the time I discovered that I had prostate cancer, it was not long after my first wife had died, so my children had lost their mum. I felt that to tell them that I had prostate cancer, while I knew that I had it and there was a threat of some sort, I felt that it would be wise not to make things worse for them.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

You don't need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it's good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.