Laughter Quotes

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Allison Kearney

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.

Henry Elliot

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Eugene Lam

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Julius Henry Marx

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry.

Unknown

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

Searamouche