Laughter Quotes

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

~ Brenda Ueland

The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.

~ Georgette Heyer

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

~ Ingrid Betancourt

I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.

~ Isobelle Carmody

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort.

~ Christopher Hitchens

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

~ Thomas Hardy

Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.

~ Evgeny Zamjatin

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

~ Marty Rubin

For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever.

~ Félix J. Palma

The Universe will give us love, happiness, merriment and laughter if we give others love, happiness, merriment and laughter!

~ Avijeet Das

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.

~ Kevin Hart

The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

~ Amor Towles

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

~ Matt Haig

Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

I love to laugh. Especially in times of trouble and sadness. It helps us get through the hard times of life and is also an important part of all our relationships. Laughter is a gift from God that opens our hearts. Laughing heals our hearts and brings us together.

~ Eileen Anglin

They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.

~ Faiqa Mansab

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.

~ Emil M. Cioran

By the way, you haven’t seen an alien around here, have you? About six foot eight with a face like a cross between a boar and an upturned crab. Probably carrying a spear and a bag full of severed heads.’ Parker shrugged. ‘I dunno. It gets busy here.’ ‘He’s got quite an unusual laugh.’ ‘Oh, that bloke? He’s down the bottom of the ramp. You know him, then?

~ Toby Frost

Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively.

~ Balroop Singh

Laughing and crying are closely related. Smiling and grimacing both involve a person showing their teeth as does laughing and growling. Crying and laughing always represents the expression of actual emotion.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically.

~ Mikhail Bakhtin

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells

~ Tom Holt

Laughter is much better than anger.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.

~ Lene Fogelberg

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.

~ Audrey Hepburn

—I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.—That went by just a little fast, Torl.—It’s terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man’s foot when he’s wearing boots, commander.

~ David Eddings

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn’t help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn’t felt like that in a long while.

~ J.d. Jordan

Days are made to be filled with laughter.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. God who made good laughter forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.

~ C.s. Lewis

I know, you were much closer to the painter than any of us. In spite of that, your lips, too, will want to curl up into a smile. There are levels of tragedy whose mind-numbing properties can only be checked by laughter, and what story does not contain an inkling of the grotesque? When we Germans will have learnt to laugh like the Gauls, we will truly be the rulers of this earth; even more so than before, one might add.John Hamilton Llewellyn's End

~ Hanns Heinz Ewers

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

~ Julie Lythcott-Haims

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

~ Henrik Ibsen

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.

~ Anne Lamott

Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What,' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?

~ N.d. Wilson

My mother’s laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.

~ ~Peggy Toney Horton

Your laughter is louder than my personal demons' whispers.

~ Oliver Tremble

I dearly love a laugh.

~ Jane Austen