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Quotes About Laughter

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.
~ Michael Bolton
Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
~ Paul McCartney
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
~ Robert Breault
Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.
~ Robert Breault
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
~ George Carlin
My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.
~ Howie Mandel
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
Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.
~ Jim Stovall
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
~ Bill Forsyth
I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
~ Bill Watterson
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
~ George Gissing
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
~ Henry Roth
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
~ Jean Paul
Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.
~ Joan Rivers
People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.
~ Steve Harvey
You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you don't know that look, it means you haven't had enough fun in your life.
~ Tucker Max
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.
~ Ricky Gervais
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
~ Lynda Barry
I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.
~ Kimberly Elise