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Quotes About Laughter

because he who has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death
~ Luigi Pirandello
What was it about love? Coming down off heroin, it was so hard to think of anything but pain. When we were stoned, we loved each other, we touched each other, we laughed a lot, it was us against the world.
~ Luke Davies
humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it was like laughing at your own jokes)
~ Lynne Truss
I'll talk to Mortimer and see what he thinks, and then get back to you tomorrow. In the meantime, you should really get to sleep and get those shared dreams going. Cale grimaced at the suggestion, and reminded him, She has a splitting headache, Bricker. I thought that was a married woman's complaint? Bricker responded quickly, and then laughed at his own joke as he hung up.
~ Lynsay Sands
Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about? No, he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. Cale here is. Kale? Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn't see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver and leaned to the side, trying to see out into the kitchen as she muttered, Kale is a vegetable.
~ Lynsay Sands
Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest.
~ Lynsay Sands
Ye ha'e to laugh at life's trials. It makes them lighter to carry.
~ Lynsay Sands
You took your time,' she complained. He stared at her. 'You didn't want me here. You sent me a letter.' She laughed until she coughed. 'I never did!' she said, in the tone of a younger woman who learns only now of some bravura socio-sexual faux pas achieved with the aid of alcohol a week, a month or a year before. It was one of her most effective impersonations. For a moment she seemed full of life. 'I never did!
~ M. John Harrison
E, enquanto uma chora, outra ri; é a lei do mundo, meu rico senhor; é a perfeição universal. Tudo chorando seria monótono, tudo rindo cansativo; mas uma boa distribuição de lágrimas e polcas, soluços e sarabandas, acaba por trazer à alma do mundo a variedade necessária, e faz-se o equilíbrio da vida.
~ Machado de Assis
São como fotografias instantâneas da felicidade.
~ Machado de Assis
Do you are laugh because you are successful or because another one is unfortunate?
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, Mrs. Which said. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I was just laughing because I felt good. You act as though you keep expecting people to laugh at you. You ought to just laugh at them. I'll bet they're funnier than you are.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Flip! Are you all right! Paul! Are you all right! They spoke simultaneously and then they both laughed and Paul came over to the bed and kissed Flip and then stood looking down at her. Flip smiled at him and strangely her eyes filled with tears. I thought he'd killed you, Paul said. No, I'm fine, Paul. Are you all right?
~ Madeline L'Engle
Laugh a lot and be full of trust, not suspicion.
~ Maeve Binchy
Hee-hee-hee-who," she breathed, only she managed to do it to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth, and Caleb burst out laughing.
~ Maggie Shayne
In order to make somebody laugh, you have to be interesting, and in order to be interesting, you have to do things that are mean. Comedy comes out of anger, and interesting comes out of angry; otherwise there is no conflict.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
if I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly
~ Malcolm Gladwell