Quotes About Laughter

We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn

What kind of books? Sories that make for wonder. Stories that make for laughter. Stories that stir one within with and understanding of the true natures of courage, of love, of beauty. Stories that make one tingle with high adventure, with daring, with grim determination, with the capacity of seeing danger through to the end. Stories that bring our minds to kneel in reverence; stories that show the tenderness of true mercy, the strength of loyalty, the unmawkish respect for what is good.

What kind of books? 'Stories that make for wonder. Stories that make for laughter. Stories that stir one within with and understanding of the true natures of courage, of love, of beauty. Stories that make one tingle with high adventure, with daring, with grim determination, with the capacity of seeing danger through to the end. Stories that bring our minds to kneel in reverence; stories that show the tenderness of true mercy, the strength of loyalty, the unmawkish respect for what is good.

None of us are going to get out of this alive so we might as well grab a laugh while we can.

I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper's screams. I am haunted by the Lady's laughter.

That Butch Fuller is a no-'count ditch hound, and no decent woman would be seen talkin' to him. But Butch had a laugh like the edges of an April sunset—translucent and mystifying. You knew it couldn't last forever, but you'd stand for hours, hoping for the chance to experience just a glimmer of it once again.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.

When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.

He laughed again: the horror of the world lay like infection in his throat.

You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.

He can make a woman laugh. Look how Tooley is laughing now. His father was the same. It's the best way, Henry, to win a woman.

If I had been told I would have laughed, as I laugh now on my better days.

The passenger wondered when it was that he had first begun to detest laughter like a bad smell.

Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.

Humor was the curtain she put around everything.

my sister and I want to laugh out loud. She stands in her kitchen pouring a really good chardonnay. Her wrists, like her ankles, are perfect. Her fingers slender and adorned with the Tiff—the rock on a platinum

I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.

Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.