Laughter as Medicine Quotes

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Laughter is the best creative medicine.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.

Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.

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

Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.