Laughter Quotes

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.

~ Wilkie Collins

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter enlightens our hearts and lightens life’s burdens.

~ Debasish Mridha

To enjoy a great life, often have a great laugh.

~ Debasish Mridha

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

~ Mark Helprin

Good laughter, or even a smile. It makes everything grow. It makes people Love you.

~ Angie Karan

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.

~ Nikki Rowe

When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.

~ Marty Rubin

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

~ Shannon L. Alder

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

~ A. Whitney Brown

... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.

~ Andrés Neuman

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh. --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh. Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.

~ Larry P. Aitken

...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...

~ John Geddes

Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

~ Bronnie Ware

I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.

~ James Hauenstein

They were even talking about buying a bodyguard, can you believe it? I mean, what on earth would I look like, turning up with a bodyguard? Actually, I'd look pretty cool and mysterious, wouldn't I? That might have been quite a good idea.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Ryker, you ride with Orlando,” Ryker mocked in a snarky voice as he turned to the other man. He gestured toward the Pinto with a look of revulsion on his rugged face. “How the hell does he expect both of us to fit into that tiny metal trap? Even if we could squeeze in, the tires will probably pop. In fact, let's just carry it over. It'll be faster that way.

~ Rose Wynters

Laughter lights up the darkness.

~ A.d. Posey

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

~ Isobelle Carmody

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

~ Herman Melville

To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.

~ Sage Kafsky

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

~ Leslea Tash

There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course of their mutual chattering , under a wide variety of circumstances, they are induced to engage in bouts of involuntary, convulsive respiration, a sort of loud, helpless, mutually reinforcing group panting that sometimes is so severe as to incapacitate them. Far from being aversive,however, these attacks seem to be sought out by most members of the species, some of whom even appear to be addicted to them....the species in Homo sapiens (which does indeed inhabit South America, among other places), and the behavior is laughter.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core.

~ J.d. Stroube

Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Did you bite someone?' Jack enquired.'I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter has sharper teeth than any dog. It tears people apart who wish to be taken seriously, but I could not help myself. There were many complaints and finally a man in a brown suit came and looked at me. He was very important and not used to being laughed at, but I could see he had dandruff on his collar, and there was a spot of his breakfast egg on his lapel. You should have seen him - so puffed up and proud of himself. I couldn't help but laugh and that made people see him as I did, and so they laughed too. All of a sudden everyone realised that for all his status in official matters, he was a man who lived alone and was loveless.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Lucas heard a strange sound, something he hadn’t heard in months. At first it didn’t seem real, it was something distant from the past. It was the first time in nearly a year he had heard himself laugh, and it momentarily stunned him

~ Mark A. Cooper

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.

~ Donna Tartt

I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.

~ Nuno Roque

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere.....You could call me the jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, it's all ridiculous.

~ Sun Ra

For no real reason – well, perhaps because of the seriousness under the trees or Nader’s hair, which was very messy and covered in little grass seeds – Katie began to giggle. She knew it was wrong, yet it was also natural. She covered her mouth with both hands, but Nader was already pale with revulsion. He turned and marched away into unwanted sunlight, leaving her to wonder why bad things happened and why no good person prevented them.

~ Carla H. Krueger

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

~ Lise Deharme

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer.

~ Jimbo J. Antipolo

A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.

~ Kit Alloway

He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond!

~ Faraaz Kazi