Ken Bruen Quotes

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

You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

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

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

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

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

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