Humor Therapy Quotes

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

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

Instead of letting anxiety run you, try voicing it. Voice it in your comedy. Voice it in a script. Just voice it, and it'll help you release it.

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.