Laughter Quotes

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.

~ William Hazlitt

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

~ Pat Conroy

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

~ Junot Díaz

A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. Do you wish for youth

~ Said Mercury

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live

~ Andrea Levy

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.

~ Vera Nazarian

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life.Why? he asked, opening both his eyes.Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?

~ P.c. Cast

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

~ Toni Morrison

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

~ Toni Morrison

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

~ Nicanor Parra

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

~ John Green

The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that it’s a false alarm. Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal.

~ V.s. Ramachandran

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

~ Georgette Heyer

When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

~ Sheldon B. Kopp

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

~ Franny Billingsley

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

~ David Levithan

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

~ Edward Mcpherson

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

~ Hal Holbrook

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

~ Phil Callaway

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

~ Charles Dickens

And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco.

~ Jack Kerouac

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

~ James Carlos Blake

Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.

~ Bryan R. Dennis

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

~ John Steinbeck

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

~ Dean Koontz

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.

~ Ken Scholes

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

We're all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

~ Will Rodgers

They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.

~ Toni Morrison

Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly sane in telling her all this. And she was perfectly sane in listening to it and nodding and urging him to tell her more. It was the rest of the world that was-She doubled over as a wave of laughter hit her.Mulder looked at her and started laughing too. They stood there in the cemetery in the darkness and the drizzle, laughing their heads off.'You know we're crazy,' Scully finally said.'Of course we are,' Mulder gasped out.

~ Les Martin

I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen when she's writing. The way she laughs. The way she smiles. The way she's kind. The way she cares. The way she listens. Just everything. She's just incredible. I've never met anyone quite like her before.

~ Kiki Archer

We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.

~ Lauren Groff

Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...

~ Isobelle Carmody

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when you think about them. It’s funny and you don’t scream, as long as it’s not you. If it’s somebody else you can laugh.

~ Stephen King

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht