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Quotes About Laughter

Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time! Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
~ Allen Klein
When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth.
~ Allison Pearson
Seriously, Macey snapped. go. Kiss. A baby can you believe her? Preston asked, coking his head towards macey. everytime she sees me, all she does is call me baby and talk about kissing. Macey looked like she wanted to kill him. But I kind of wanted to laugh.
~ Ally Carter
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
~ Alton Brown
He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children. Is that the first sign of love? You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
~ Alyson Richman
Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.
~ Amanda Grange
That I have not yet met the right woman, and that there is no use my marrying unless I find someone I like as well as Emma,' I said. He laughed, though I did not know why. There was nothing very amusing in what I had said.
~ Amanda Grange
make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Humor, like Death, has all seasons for his own.
~ Ambrose Bierce
you should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The gods love to laugh at a happy man, however.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?
~ Joe Abercrombie
I bet you can do better." Luthar was grinning across at Logen. "I got bitten by a mean sheep once, but it didn't leave much of a mark.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You're a fine one to talk, Skinny Rikke. Every pinch o' meat fell off you when you went to see the witch. You're like a head stuck on a spear these days, but without the flies. Most o' the flies, at least." And she burst out laughing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm no drunk," croaked Cosca. "I simply like the taste of wine. So much so that I have to drink some every few hours or become violently ill." He clung to his fork while the room swayed around him, fixed his aching smile while they chuckled away. He hoped they enjoyed their laughter while they could, because Nicomo Cosca always laughed last. Provided he wasn't being sick, of course.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The man screamed and screamed behind his mask, and the Bloody-Nine laughed and twisted the blade. Logen might have pitied him, but Logen was far away and the Bloody-Nine had no more pity in him than the winter. Less, even.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Have a smile at breakfast," droned Shivers, stony-faced, "you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
~ Joe Abercrombie
My old mentor Sazine once told me you should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You must be joking.' 'I save my jokes for those with a sense of humour.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Clover sat with Wonderful at Black Calder's table, in the shadows further from the firepit. There was less gold over here, and less laughter, and less ale, but a lot more power.
~ Joe Abercrombie