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Quotes About Laughter

He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair.
~ Ken Kesey
He knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance... He knows there's a painful side, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.
~ Ken Kesey
Win or lose, the crows always laughed--the hard, old jaded laughter that came of looking at the world with a black and practiced eye. From the less skillful the laugh might have hinted of despair, or silliness, like the magpies', but the crows were masters of the wry outlook, and Viv never heard them but what she followed their expert lead and laughed along--they knew the secret of black, that it could not be made blacker, and if neither could it be made lighter, it could still be made funnier.
~ Ken Kesey
she followed their expert lead and laughed along—they knew the secret of black, that it could not be made blacker, and if neither could it be made lighter, it could still be made funnier.
~ Ken Kesey
he commences to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there's nothing funny going on. But it's not the way that Public Relation laughs, it's free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it's lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relation laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it's the first laugh I've heard in years.
~ Ken Kesey
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side;
~ Ken Kesey
Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
~ Ken Kesey
Néha el is felejtem, milyen csodákat tud tenni a nevetés.
~ Ken Kesey
Tudja, hogy az embernek nevetni kell a fájó dolgokat, mert másképp oda az ép ész, és az Å'rületbe hajtja az embert a világ.
~ Ken Kesey
You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world from running you plumb crazy
~ Ken Kesey
Es posible que no comprendiera por qué seguíamos sin poder reír, pero sabía que es imposible ser fuerte si se es incapaz de ver el lado cómico de las cosas. De hecho, se esforzaba tanto por encontrarle ese lado cómico a la vida que empezaba a preguntarme si estaría ciego a su otro aspecto, si tal vez era incapaz de comprender por qué la risa se nos atravesaba en el estómago.
~ Ken Kesey
Porque sabe que es preciso reírse de las cosas para mantener el equilibrio, para impedir que el mundo acabe enloqueciéndote. Sabe que las cosas tienen su lado triste [...], pero no quiere que el dolor empañe el humor, lo mismo que no permitiría que el humor empañase el dolor.
~ Ken Kesey
Mõnikord ma unustan, milleks naer on võimeline.
~ Ken Kesey
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance just to keep the world running you plumb crazy.
~ Ken Kesey
Maybe that's why he laughs so much, because he isn't able to keep all the pieces out..
~ Ken Kesey
Sa infatti che si deve ridere delle cose delle quali si è feriti soltanto per mantenere l'equilibrio, impedire che il mondo ti renda pazzo furioso. Sa che esiste un aspetto doloroso; sa che il pollice mi duole, che la sua amichetta ha un seno illividito e che il dottore sta perdendo gli occhiali, ma non vuole consentire alla sofferenza di cancellare l'umorismo, non più di quanto consenta all'umorismo di cancellare la sofferenza.
~ Ken Kesey
žmogus turi juoktis iš to, kas j? skaudina-antraip praras pusiausvyr?, ir pasaulis pavers j? bepro?iu.
~ Ken Kesey
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
~ Dario Fo
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
~ Zero Mostel
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
~ Jerome Lawrence
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
~ Paul Goodman
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
~ Pliny the Elder
Es sind tausend Tropfenin einer Weltnur für uns gemachtTausend Tropfenwenn der Himmel weintund man dennoch lacht
~ Nina Hrusa
There is no beauty like a face with a joyful smile.
~ Debasish Mridha