Quotes About Laughter

humor is godless and entirely human since humor runs counter to the sublime: instead of transcending, you are made acutely aware of the skin in which you exist.

Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

So, amid all the laughter and the steam, the Trenet record, the unwound clocks, the veiled curtains, the teasing and banter, the dewy, mildewy glamour of a swimming-pool in whose stagnant atmosphere the flat was bathed, the days passed, jubilant and implacable, days divided by nights as two frames of film are divided by a black strip.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

comedy was about what was wrong with the world—people laughed because something was too big, or too small, or too much, or not enough. Quirks and exaggerations were the essence of parody. Irony and discomfort the grist for humor.

If you laugh at it, you're stepping over the corpses. And if you work with him, well, it's worse.

Recognizing not only intellectually but psychologically and physically, through laughter, that we are not the only ones feeling such a range of emotions makes us feel less alone, provides a renewed sense of perspective, allows us to hit an emotional "reset" button and can relieve stress.

When someone genuinely laughs with you, it's proof that you share a certain internal space. And that's not so lonely after all.

When you ask a female colleague whether you expect too much out of marriage if you still want to actually desire your husband, she laughs almost manically and says, "Hell, yes.

Aunque lo obligara a trotar como un cervatillo, oírla reírse o hablar se le hacía mucho más placentero que el silencio y la soledad.

Sola yo, amor, y vos quién sabe dónde; tu recuerdo me mece como al maíz el viento y te traigo en el tiempo, recorro los caminos, me río a carcajadas y somos los dos juntos otra vez, junto al agua.

Se l'umorismo serve a rendere meno triste la vita, perché non dovrebbe servire a rendere meno triste la morte?

The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of your own durability.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.