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Quotes About Laughter

It was funny in a way, but only in the unhumorous way anything recent was funny. In another 80 years, maybe she would find it hilarious.
~ Nancy Kress
happiness is the best medicine.
~ Nancy Thayer
It's been a while since someone last made her laugh. Since she last laughed without deciding beforehand that laughing was the smart thing to do.
~ Naomi Alderman
on the TV. Kristen is saying, The fourth-quarter forecast isn't looking good. Matt is laughing attractively and saying, Now, I don't understand that kind of thing at all, but I'll tell you what I do know about: apple-bobbing.
~ Naomi Alderman
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
And they laughed a little and were very friendly together, the three of them, Anna, Emanuele and Giustino; and they were pleased to be together, the three of them, thinking of all those who were dead, and of the long war and the sorrow and noise and confusion, and of the long, difficult life which they saw in front of them now, full of all the things they did not know how to do.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
Don't worry, no one ever died of it. You might cry or laugh, but not die.
~ Natalie Goldberg
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
~ Nathanael West
We've been calling your phone every second the last two days." "I'm OK, Dad." "We were worried. But then I thought to myself, you know what the Lion King says." "'I laugh in the face of danger.'" "That's my son!
~ Nathaniel Rich
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?
~ Neil Postman
For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
~ Neil Postman
Finalmente, Huxley intentaba decirnos que lo que afligía a la gente en "Un mundo feliz" no era que estaban riendo en lugar de pensar, sino que no sabían de qué se reían y por qué habían dejado de pensar.
~ Neil Postman
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?
~ Neil Postman
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
~ Neil Postman
These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.
~ Nella Larsen
Tread softly Breathe peacefully Laugh hysterically
~ Unknown
Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.
~ Nelson Mandela
Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically." ? Nelson Mandela
~ Nelson Mandela
She laughed and unfastened her bra, unleashing her breasts like attack dogs
~ Unknown
Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz
~ Nevada Barr
But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?" I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.
~ Nevil Shute
Hahaahhaahaaahhaaahahaahaahaa!
~ Niall Horan