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Quotes About Laughter

Zander, you're getting me all wet and gooey, " she squealed.He laughed again as he plopped her on the bed. "And I've just started.
~ Paige Tyler, Wolf Trouble
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
~ Red Skelton
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
~ James Gandolfini
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
~ David C. Coates
Inui's insane laughter filled the sanctuary. The ceiling peeled off and shards of stained glass danced through the air. They turned into dead rats, German dictionaries, wineglasses, fountain pens, scorpions, cats' heads, syringes, and a motley jumble of other objects that filled the space, flying around madly, swirling like a whirlwind, surging like a raging sea.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
I never knew it before but now I know—and you, too, know—that laughter may be of different colors, Laughter is but a distant echo of an explosion within us; it may be the echo of a holiday—red, blue, and golden fireworks—or at times it may represent pieces of human flesh exploded into the air.…
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
And that was when I learned from my own experience that a laugh can be a terrifying weapon. With a laugh you can kill even murder itself.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Mai inainte n-am stiut - acum stiu, dupa cum stiti si voi: rasul poate avea culori diferite. Nu este decat ecoul indepartat al exploziei din interiorul vostru: poate sunt rachete de sarbatoare - rosii, albastre, aurii, poate au sarit in sus franturi de trup omenesc...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I had never known this before, but now I do and so do you: Laughter comes in different colours. It is only the distant echo of an explosion inside you. It might come in holiday colours—red, blue, golden rockets. or it might be the bits of a human body flying out...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
laughter comes in different colors. It is only the distant echo of an explosion occurring inside you: it might be festive rockets of red, blue, gold, or it might be shreds of human bodies flying upward
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
But, to begin with, I am incapable of jokes, for every joke contains a lie as an implicit function.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets no one's expectation but its internal need to feel.
~ Yiyun Li
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
~ Yoko Ono
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
~ young edward
Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
~ young wm paul ii
Wat een - hoe zal ik het zeggen - verblindend iets was dat hoongelach. Het wrede, bij hun leeftijd passende gelach van mijn klasgenoten leek mij een felle schittering te zijn als van licht, dat van een bundel baderen terugkaatst.
~ Yukio Mishima
Even in despair, man must laugh.
~ yutang lin
Quando forçamos o riso, usamos músculos e circuitos cerebrais diferentes dos que acionamos quando algo nos faz rir de verdade. Os seres humanos, em geral, não dão pela diferença. Mas um sensor biométrico conseguiria detetá-la.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
When you force yourself to laugh, you use different brain circuits and muscles than when you laugh because something is really funny. Humans cannot usually detect the difference. But a biometric sensor could.9
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I had a very funny family.
~ Zach Braff
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
~ Zach Galifianakis