Laughter Quotes
Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
2910Charles Dickens
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
1754 Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
2786 Erma Bombeck
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
4132 Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
2221 Roman Payne
She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.
4240 Christopher Vogler
I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.
4006 Michael Bassey Johnson
Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect.
1873 Bryant McGill
The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
1089 Moriah McStay
It's just... You sound like lorde. But like, with maple syrup.
1026 Richelle E. Goodrich
We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.
2648 Lois Lowry
It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
4946 Wilkie Collins
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…
4786 Robert Schimmel
Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.
1838 Tanzy Sayadi
I fought for you, I fought for us
I fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,
Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,
Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now gone
So tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.
3234 Eben Alexander
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
1945 Markus Zusak
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
3044 Victor Borge
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
4736 Jim Butcher
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
3836 Nikolai Gogol
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
3642 William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
4996 Michael Bassey Johnson
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.
4338 Emily Mitchell
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
4932 Erin Fall Haskell
If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within!
1910 Stephen Fry
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing - they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
2817 Jane Austen
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
3675 Gretchen Rubin
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
2853 Charles Bukowski
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter
1691 Kirsten Smith
and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
4343 Jennifer Donnelly
There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.
The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.
Be careful what you show the world.
You never know when the wolf is watching.
3405 Gayle Forman
Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.
3025 Dean Koontz
She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
4971 Sherman Alexie
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
3634 Ellyn Bache
It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.
1966 Minari Endou
When I die, I plan to be laughing hysterically.
2112 Miriam Toews
Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
1504 Steve Brown
If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.
1899 Alan W. Watts
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
3305 Lailah Gifty Akita
A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.
2344 Monika Zands
Take the road less traveled...there's less traffic!!!
1941 James Baldwin
I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
2327 Steve Goodier
Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
2784 Annoying Orange
You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud
3869 P.G. Wodehouse
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
4233 P.G. Wodehouse
The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.
4538 David Nicholls
There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.
2300 Munia Khan
Laugh until you cry;
never let your eyes look dry
This is not a matter of joke;
this is all to provoke
our sense of humour
Life is its own consumer!
2466 Angelica Hopes
Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches.
4605 Hubert Selby Jr.
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
1868 Wm. Paul Young
If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
1877 Pen
Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt to capture someone’s spirit. That is theirs, and theirs alone.
4176 David Finkel
To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise
2500 Lenny Bruce
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
4665 Brenda M. McGraw
You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily!
3108 Saurabh Sharma
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
4515 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.
1902 Robert A. Heinlein
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.
3423 Percy Bysshe Shelley
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
3484 Malcolm De Chazal
The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.
When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
3217 Maggie Stiefvater
His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.
1784 Kirby Larson
no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.
4200 Jay Woodman
Each pain is Unbearable / yet Trifling
Seeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet Exquisite
Through Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.
2072 L.M. Montgomery
A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.
1235 Munindra Misra
4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITY
When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,
When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.
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4156 Munindra Misra
4. Ditties of Life –
4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITY
When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,
When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.
[222] – 4
4600 Munindra Misra
When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,
When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.
Munindra Misra
1339 James Kavanaugh
I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
1118 Caroline Hanson
Her gaze shifted away. "I don't remember my dreams anymore." It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them, he was with his parents again. Hearing their laughter. Watching them live. But when he woke up they were really gone.
1892 Starley Ard
I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond.
3276 Nikki Rowe
We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
2861 Cassandra King
Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
3559 Belinda Jeffrey
It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then that I didn't ever want to be like that. Whatever happened, life was something too precious to give up on so easily.
4129 Sarah Dessen
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
1126 André Wickström
Jos joku saa sinut nauramaan, haluat varmasti tavata hänet uudestaan!
3595 Unarine Ramaru
A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.
4895 Emery Lord
Laughter feels like our flotation device - it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.
2886 Amy Leigh Mercree
Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully.
4990 Angela Carter
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
4551 Kirsty Dallas
A day without your child is like a day without sunshine; a month without your child is like a month without laughter; a year without your child is like a year without your heart; a lifetime without your child is like a lifetime without your soul…
4145 David Sedaris
I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children’s happiness. Group crying, he could stand, but group laughing was asking for it, especially at the dinner table.
1528 John Geddes
...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
2205 Jennifer Donnelly
I have done this - made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.
4122 Ernst Mach
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.
1977 Zora Neale Hurston
John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.
2063 Ethel Russell-Ajisomo
Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.
3278 Linda Ellerbee
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
4522 Richelle E. Goodrich
Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.
1634 Monika Zands
Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!!
3673 Seán O'Casey
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
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