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Quotes About Laughter

When they weren't praying, they did what schoolgirls everywhere do. They laughed, they shrieked, they burst into hysterical sobs – all for no apparent reason… The schoolgirls also played the worst Western music imaginable, and they took a surfeit of baths – so many baths that the traditional inn where Wallingford and Evelyn Arbuthnot stayed was repeatedly running out of hot water.
~ John Irving
The ocean, throwing up foaming sun-sprays across some nearby rocks, was winter cold. This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the accumulating roar of the surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas. He was everywhere, he enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls. And he did everything he could think of for me.
~ John Knowles
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
~ Unknown
The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.
~ John Lloyd
Football's the kind of game where, if your team's doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually enjoy looking forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theater of emotions, not dreams.
~ John Lydon
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.
~ Richard Simmons
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~ Aldous Huxley
The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
~ John Krasinski
In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter
~ Longchenpa
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
~ Don Adams
You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.
~ Pascal Bruckner
That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.
~ John Cleese
Making people laugh is the greatest experience.
~ Rebecca Romijn
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.
~ Steven Weber
I've experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.
~ Karon Waddell
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
~ Frank McCourt
I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
~ David Nicholls
You have as much laughter as you have faith.
~ Martin Luther
Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.
~ Marc Maron
Broke ni...s, only make jokes ni....
~ Unknown
If being broke is a joke then you a funny ni....
~ Unknown
Behind my smile is a hurting heart. Behind my laugh, I'm falling apart. Behind my smile, is tears at night.
~ Unknown
Inside...I feel alone and been left out, full of sadness and loneliness, a feeling that slowly consuming my life and killing my soul...The only way to cover the pain and helps to survive is for me to keep on smiling, find ways to cheer up myself and loves to laugh out loud...this makes me who I am...Restricting me from doing this feels like living in the dessert all alone and killing me quickly...
~ Unknown