Change Quote by Lin Yutang

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. —Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living”

— Oliver Benjamin

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Peggy Noonan

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

— Sam Ervin

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

— Andre Breton

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

— Ray Stevenson

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments…

— Mark Twain

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

— Jonathan Miller

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

— Patrick Wolf

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Anonymous