Quotes About Laughter

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

I could almost hear my books in the living room, boarded up in their Jefferson bookcases, crying out to me, like someone stuck in an elevator, or a coffin: "Let us out of here. We're suffocating. Let us out. Let us OUT!" And I started to laugh. "I'll be down in a minute," I said.

Abderian laughter. Inhabitants of ancient Abdera were known as rural simpletons who foolishly derided people and things they didn't understand. Thus these Thracians saw their name become a synonym for foolish, scoffing laughter or mockery. Though proverbially known for their stupidity, the Abderites included some of the wisest men in Greece, Democritus and Protagoras among them.

Revel in your freedom. Live wholeheartedly, laugh loud, love much, spread joy, be truthful, and give yourself to everything. You, who are already whole, can lose nothing. Your ego may fall from time to time, but you will not. Live big!

Madame, you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.

Attunement of one's feet to the bald and hairy earth. Consider the blackbird, perched on a reed, a north wind blowing, the water torn. Now is the poem's beginning, even at this late hour in the span of everywhere. Consider the lovers, with not enough arms for all their need to embrace. Or, if you prefer, consider the madness of wars, the impossible weight of oceans. And even if we had been there, would we have laughed or cried?

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

I want you to stay with me." "So do I." "Is that what you said in Arabic?" "It was close," she said. He waited for the rest. "It's just an old Bedouin saying." "Give me the rough translation." "I would not trade you for a thousand goats." Lucas laughed.

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What a terrible dream I had a few days ago. [...] To the knives and forks clung the tears of enemies I destroyed, and the glasses sang with the sighs of many poor people, but the tear-stains only made me want to laugh, while the hopeless sighs sounded to me like music. I needed banquet music and had it.

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

Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

I smiled. I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses. He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room? I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed;

She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.

William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

Laughing is medicine for the soul.

Even if you don't feel like it, look in the mirror and laugh for a couple of minutes.

There are few things more rejuvenating than sharing a belly-bursting laugh with an old friend.