Bears Quote by Constance Rourke

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

— Peggy Noonan

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

— Ray Stevenson

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

— Andre Breton

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

— Sigmund Freud

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

— Frederick Lenz

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes,…

— Alissa Nutting

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

— Lorrie Moore

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

— Anonymous

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

— Richard G. Scott

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It…

— Edwin Percy Whipple