Laughter Quotes

Halved. That was every time. My laughter was for idiots, for their unjustifiable idiocy and for myself for an unrelenting conviction to them, for that unforgivable instance I leveled myself to them. At that awkward realization knowing I precisely was an idiot too, that was the time when I really began to laugh.

~ Jay Mark D. Saga-Ad

You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.

~ Isobelle Carmody

The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word?FoodHe threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.

~ Sandra Brown

Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.

~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

Laughter is a gift for lovers.

~ Harley King

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.

~ Brandon Sanderson

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.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 and goodheartedly. I'm not speaking of his mental development, but of his character, of the whole man. And so, if you want to discern a man and know his soul, you must look, not at how he keeps silent, or how he speaks, or how we weeps, or even how he is stirred by the noblest ideas, but you had better look at him when he laughs. If a man has a good laugh, it means he's a good man.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

~ Genereux Philip

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.

~ Dave Barry

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?

~ Steve Goodier

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.

~ Maurice Mességué

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.

~ Carolyn Parkhurst

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

~ Josh Sundquist

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's there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

~ Ken Kesey

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 Kerbs

~ Connie Kerbs

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.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch in stitches.

~ Angelica Hopes

There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.

~ Andrea Goeglein

I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.

~ Aashutosh Murthy

I'm surprised I could actually talk with how much I was grinning.

~ N.r. Walker

Beware of giggle grins, they are highly contagious.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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.

~ Jaye Murray

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

~ Jeannette Walls

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

~ Steve Allen

Laughter is easiest said in a story, some people just forget that their life is a story.

~ Andrew Carson

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

~ Katherine Mansfield

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 underwear manufacturers, all generals, all political parties, are in agreement about that kind of laughter, and all of them rush to put the image of the two laughing runners on the billboards advertising their religion, their products, their ideology, their nation, their sex, their dishwashing powder.

~ Milan Kundera

The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Take time to laugh, to talk, to hug, and to cry. These are the human relief valves.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes, because I feel I might die otherwise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich