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Quotes About Laughter

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
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
~ Jayma Mays
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We shall all die. But we shall not die together. Something will be left behind us like a trail of light to transmit to succeeding generations all that is great in work and in the imagination. And more than crumbling palaces and mutilated statues, what shines forever in men's memories are the efforts of the mind to lift itself above everyday existence by laughter, terror, metaphysical thought, the beauty of the word, and the brilliance of ideas.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
~ Jean Dubuffet
I walk with Rafe to the End of the Rainbow. With his wild ginger hair and beard flattened by the rain, he looks like a wet haystack. He catches me grinning at him. "Well, you don't look like any GQ guy yourself," he says, and then we're laughing like maniacs while the rain pours down on us.
~ Jean Ferris
Temos de rir. Senão a tragédia vai nos fazer voar pela janela.
~ Jean Genet
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~ Jean Houston
What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.
~ Jean Plaidy
They were people—having fun.' 'They'd have had fun with us if they'd've caught us
~ Jean Ure
The Claudias also need laughter and play, they need people who will celebrate life with them and manifest their joy of being with them. It was this joy and the gentle presence of Nadine and the others in Suyapa that gradually weakened Claudia's great walls of defence. Little by little, she began to trust that she was not bad, but capable of loving and being loved.
~ Jean Vanier
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.
~ Jean Webster
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.
~ Jean Webster
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!
~ Jean Webster
I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.
~ Jean Webster
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
She points the phone back to her own face. 'So can we be finished now, yes? Or should we keep on killing people?' Javier unleashes a noise that's half sob and half laughter. He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.
~ Jeanine Cummins
They discussed several other options, including sending it to the president to help him run the government. But they didn't think he would want money meant for a bribe, either. In the end, they snuck upstairs to the bathroom, where they ripped up the five-dollar bill and flushed the pieces down the toilet, laughing so hard they almost woke up Lydia.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
irresistible Geiger grin broke out.
~ Jeanne Birdsall