Laughter Quotes

Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, Careful. I'm fatal. He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn’t squirm away, “Jesus. It’s like you said that directly to my balls.”She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.

~ Debra Anastasia

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

~ Immanuel Kant

These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate. - , Return to Laughter (1954)

~ Elenore Smith Bowen

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

~ Wes Adamson

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

~ Sorin Suciu

Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.

~ Leland Dirks

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

~ Dennis Vickers

-Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows -thump- lumps of meat -thump. His widened. Give me milk -thump- warm and sweet.I stopped abruptly, pressing my lips together as I realized what I had just sung. The ridiculousness of it struck me forcibly and I knew I could not goon without laughing. We stared at each other,locked in a stalemate, his eyes brimming with laughter, his lips trembling. My chin quivered. Against my will, a sound burst from me. It was a very unladylike snort.-

~ Julianne Donaldson

I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me.

~ Brian Andreas

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

~ George Macdonald

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

~ Robertson Davies

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

~ Langston Hughes

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

~ Gayle Forman

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

~ Veronica Roth

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

~ Émile Zola

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.

~ Bram Stoker

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.

~ Evinda Lepins

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

~ Timothy Hallinan

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

~ Chloe Thurlow

The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...

~ C. Joybell C.

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.

~ Julia Quinn

Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart.

~ Faraaz Kazi

The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

~ Cherie Carter-Scott

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.

~ Ethel Russell-Ajisomo

They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it’s free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.

~ Mindy Levy

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

~ Pablo Neruda

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

~ Rebecah Mcmanus

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

~ Craig Ferguson

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

~ Rosario Castellanos

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

~ Shannon Dittemore

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

~ Lauren Dane

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

~ Tibor Fischer

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

~ Will Durst

Laughter is an instant vacation.

~ Milton Berle

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

~ Victor Borge

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

~ Bill Cosby

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

~ Marcel Duchamp