Quotes about laughter
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes because I feel I might die otherwise.
Richelle E. Goodrich -
Beware of giggle grins they are highly contagious.
Andrew Carson -
Laughter is easiest said in a story some people just forget that their life is a story.
Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure
The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.
Will Rodgers -
We're all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.
Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them but hidden behind a thin wall.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann -
Gentleness stepped out of your smile but:Suspicion cried out from your laughter.
Christopher Morley - The Haunted Bookshop
Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man they mark us off from the brutes.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
Tapan Ghosh - Faceless The Only Way Out
Smiles and laughter are contagious feel free to spread these viruses.
Molly Ivins -
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Molly Ivins -
Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Wataru Watari - やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 2
Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that I'd burst into laughter halfway.
Munia Khan -
Laugh until you crynever let your eyes look dryThis is not a matter of jokethis is all to provokeour sense of humourLife is its own consumer!
Kirsty Dallas - Mother's Love
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…
Harriet Rochlin - The Reformer's Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
Reba McEntire -
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Victor Hugo -
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Albert Brooks -
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
Albert Brooks -
Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
Lawrence Durrell -
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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?
Maurice Mességué - Of People and Plants: The Autobiography of Europe's Most Celebrated Healer
Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.
Genereux Philip -
Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance
Dave Barry -
I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren’t as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Take time to laugh, to talk, to hug, and to cry. These are the human relief valves.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.
Harley King -
Our flesh is a gift of laughter.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it.
Munindra Misra - PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. Munindra Misra
Laura Miller - My Butterfly
Little girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch their hands and facesAnd that fill them with loveAnd make the moon reflect their smilesAnd their stars plentyAnd, above all, keep them togetherAnd hold them as you mayForever and everUntil their last day.
Malak El Halabi -
It was the moment I heard your laughter. The moment I heard us laughing, two cascades in the middle of a desert, careless and uninhibited.
Jennifer Lane - With Good Behavior
Aren’t those vegetables sexy, Rog?” Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. “Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.
Jaye Murray - Bottled Up
I want to be six years old again - just for a day.It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked.But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all.That's what I want. I want to laugh.
Katherine Mansfield -
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious laughter, laughter "beyond joking."All churches, all unde
Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle
You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.
Steve Allen -
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Aashutosh Murthy -
I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.
N.R. Walker - Book One
I'm surprised I could actually talk with how much I was grinning.
Angelica Hopes -
Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches.
Hrishikesh Agnihotri -
There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective.
J.R.R. Tolkien -
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
Andrea Goeglein -
Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Adolescent
Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A man's mirth is a feature that gives away the whole man, from head to foot. Someone's character won't be cracked for a long time then the man bursts out laughing somehow quite sincerely, and his whole character suddenly opens up as if on the flat of your hand. Only a man of the loftiest and happiest development knows how to be mirthful infectiously, that is, irresistibly
Harley King -
Laughter is a gift for lovers.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know'
Josh Sundquist - and Made It Down the Mountain
People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.
Carolyn Parkhurst - Lost and Found
It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor is power against the worst oppression. It lightens heavy burdens; it allows one to smile while in agony; it eases excruciating pains. In short, humor makes the intolerable tolerable.
Connie Kerbs - and the Miracle of Love
While some select sobering situations may be unlaughable, there are few circumstances that humor, subtle or candid, can't improve. Afterall, remembering not to take ourselves or others too seriously can put a lot of things into perspective. Laughter is healing. Laughter creates bonds and forges enduring friendships. A healthy sense of humor can quell almost any overwhelming anxiety, and can quench the fires of fury and fear unlike anything else when appropriate. Even more so when not.Connie Kerb
B.J. Neblett -
You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.
N.R. Walker - Book Three
I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now." "Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time." I laughed. "It's true. He is.
Rose Wynters - My Wolf Fighter
Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy
Groucho Marx - The Groucho Letters
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Michael Pritchard -
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Mark Buchanan - Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.
Nikki Rowe -
I just want a life of happiness, laughter and possibility,I want a passion that I call my job, to pay my bills.I want to spend my time, eating good food & making unremarkable memories with the family I have left.I want friends that can be honest enough to tell me, if I fuck up, so I can fix it & also beautiful enough to know when I'm lieing in my smile. I want a lover who isn't afraid to love me with every inch of his heart but also fearless in keeping his individual voice as we grow together. A
Stephen King - It
Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing.
Bob Monkhouse - Crying With Laughter: My Life Story
They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
Eben Alexander - Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
R.W. Erskine -
To create laughter, you must first learn to smile
Victoria Schwab - A Darker Shade of Magic
Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. "What's that on your face?"The smile vanished. "What?""Never mind," she said, laughing. "It's gone.
L.F. Young -
When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you can achieve a smile and a laugh, you can chase any demons away
Paul Laurence Dunbar -
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.
Ramana Pemmaraju -
Smile at everyone and brighten their day!
Santosh Kalwar -
There is thin line between smile and laughter.
Nike Thaddeus -
Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.
Marty Rubin -
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.
Bob Newhart -
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.
Robert McKee - and the Principles of Screenwriting
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Craig Ferguson -
I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.
Harold Ramis -
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
Daniel Prokop - Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
J. Ross Clara - Citations: A Brief Anthology
My dad used to tell me that laughter was like a cough or a sneeze - the body's way of trying to expel something. But instead of some phlegm in your throat, or some dust up your nose, a laugh happened when something really true got into your brain. Something so true that your system just couldn't stand it.
Cody Edward Lee Miller -
Comedy was invented to make people forget,That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.
Zakes Mda - Ways of Dying
Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road
Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.
François Place - The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai
A good artist should laugh often!
Unarine Ramaru -
A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.
Golda Meir -
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter.
Alan Bradley - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
Asa Don Brown - The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.