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Quotes About Laughter

recited the dictum of Felix Pilkington, 'Life is a comedy, with sad bits.
~ Niall Williams
I know now that, when you get to a grandfather's age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.
~ Niall Williams
Laughing like crazy the child goes back to the city gives birth to monsters creates earthquakes hairy women run naked old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.
~ Nicanor Parra
Llore si le parece. Yo por mi parte me muero de risa.
~ Nicanor Parra
llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa
~ Nicanor Parra
Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he's condemned to hell but when haven't poets laughed? at least he declares that he's laughing
~ Nicanor Parra
Yo no me pongo triste fácilmente Para serles sincero Hasta las calaveras me dan risa.
~ Nicanor Parra
Even underwater they could hear him laughing.
~ Unknown
Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He kicks off his sheet and slides his feet into his slippers. Bunny sits in the living room, slumped low on the sofa, full of Geoffrey's Scotch and Poodle's cocaine.
~ Nick Cave
You can find that in all art forms: the minute you inspire laughter you also make that person vulnerable, which means either you can shock them, make them laugh more, or, at that moment, you can be totally honest with them.
~ Unknown
All different yet somehow alike-not family but easy with one another and loud, laughing and singing, bright and clean. The same bright, the same clean she remembered from the scent of the promised lake. The girl's heart soared: a story came alive from legend, knights hunting dragons!
~ Nicola Griffith
Begu laughed, but it was a soft laugh, quite grown-up, and it made Hild long to hold her and shield her from the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
Begu laughed, too, that shimmery, silvery laugh Hild would always associate with light along with a wet beach and the smell of the sea and took her hand.
~ Nicola Griffith
Thenike laughed, and Marghe listened to that laugh: rich, smoky, warm, it rolled like breaking waves on a flat beach, as if it could go on forever, changeless.
~ Nicola Griffith
How long had it been since the child laughed and played with others her age?
~ Nicola Griffith
I had not heard her laugh before. It was subtle and warm as swirled brandy.
~ Nicola Griffith
He laughed when he saw them, swung Begu off his horse and kissed her cheek, bowed to Breguswith and grinned at Hild.
~ Nicola Griffith
It felt like a moment out of time, endless. The grass was pleasantly prickly against her thighs and arms. She stretched, wiggled, laughed: happy.
~ Nicola Griffith
The air in her lungs evaporated in a puff she turned to a laugh, and she sat down. Breathed. Smiled.
~ Nicola Griffith
Blood rushed sweet and hot under my skin and laughter bubbled up through me and I loosed it.
~ Nicola Griffith
They took a moment, the grown man in clothes foreign to him and the young girl in splendour she could barely carry, and understood each other. He laughed.
~ Nicola Griffith
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
~ Unknown
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas ri.
~ Nicolas Chamfort