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Quotes About Laughter

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.
~ Elena Ferrante
I'm laughing, I apologized, at the situation, at you, who've wanted to kill Nino forever, and at me, who if he showed up now would say to you: Yes, kill him. I'm laughing out of despair, because I've never been so offended, because I feel humiliated in a way that I don't know if you can imagine, because at this moment I'm so ill that I think I'm fainting.
~ Elena Ferrante
When she gave me back the notebook, she said, 'You're very clever, of course they always give you ten.' I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: 'I don't want to read anything else that you write.' 'Why?' She thought about it. 'Because it hurts me,' and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.
~ Elena Ferrante
Are you seeing him?" he asked indifferently. I laughed, a kind of sob.
~ Elena Ferrante
She grumbled, she said sarcastically that men place such an enormous importance on fucking, she laughed: not Marcello - although even he doesn't joke - but Michele, who went crazy, he's been obsessed with me for a long time, and even runs after the shadow of my shadow.
~ Elena Ferrante
I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.
~ Elena Ferrante
It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. [...] I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.
~ Elena Ferrante
The attentions of Pasquale Peluso consoled me greatly, I liked that he made me laugh. Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.
~ Elena Ferrante
realized that on his lips was a mute laugh that I had never seen before. It became him, the expression of a sympathetic man who wishes to show that he knows what's what.
~ Elena Ferrante
Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón. Cada seis años la Patria cambia de apellido; nosotros, los hombres que esperamos en la plaza lo sabemos, y por eso esa mañana los abogados nos dieron tanta risa.
~ Elena Garro
Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd.
~ Anthony Marais
I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room]
~ Anthony McGowan
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~ Antonio Banderas
Y el juego es juego, aunque parezca un pleonasmo. Pertenece a esa esfera de cosas desinteresadas: como el arte, es una contemplación desinteresada de lo real. Se juega por la misma razón por la que uno ríe, o ama.
~ Antonio Escohotado
Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
~ Antony Sher
A comedian actor who makes the spectators laugh or smile is usually better in nature in real life than an artist who makes the viewers cry or plays the lead role character in reel life.
~ Anuj Somany
A good comedian makes own funny jokes to make the people laugh but a great comedian makes the fun and jokes of oneself to make the people laugh.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who likes or loves to laugh over lunch or dinner with the sinner can't be winner ever but loser eventually in life.
~ Anuj Somany
A stupid laughs his foolish head off on being called by the people the slave of his spouse, but a strong man being a wise heart takes it as a wicked allegation by them and proves it wrong.
~ Anuj Somany
A wise merely smiles when something is either said or done worthwhile; The fools usually laugh even when someone tries to beguile them.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman who laughs a lot lies a lot without a worry of getting caught and remains confined in own thought of looking super-hot even when actually not to the man.
~ Anuj Somany
Comedy is about making mockery of the hypocrisy of the society.
~ Anuj Somany
People who have mind half usually laugh a lot and are often considered best to spend a long tenure as executive or staff in a single organization of the private sector.
~ Anuj Somany