Laughter Quotes - Page 5

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

Junot Díaz

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

Jean Houston

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Veronica Roth

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Robert Frost

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Rafael Sabatini

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Mercedes Lackey

Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.”“Death’s an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?”“Death’s an insult.”“At least an affront,” I agree.

Karen Marie Moning

A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity - who’da thought?

Diane M. Haynes

I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings.

D. Travers Scott

Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fireWoman of the world caught up in your black machinationsI was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all away when she saw the good heart of the man insideWoman caught standing up; her open parts are broken -

Abigail George

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

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Walt Disney Company

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

Louisa May Alcott

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Jay Woodman

Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.

Reiko Saibara

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.

A.P. Sweet

Laughter is like crying.

Lisa Renee Jones

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy.""Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my cheek with one finger."Also cry." He put his hand on his own belly. "Ha ha ha," he said, pressing his hand to show me the motion of his stomach. Then his expression changed to sad. "Huh huh huh," he heaved with exaggerated sobs, pressing his stomach again. "Same place. Not healthy to push down.

Patrick Rothfuss

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

Mahogany SilverRain

Laugh now, cry later.

Erma Bombeck

You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.

Mayra Santos-Febres

Halt eyed them balefully. They were all being so obvious about not mentioning his sudden reappearance that it was even worse than if they had commented on it...'Oh, go on!' he said. 'Somebody say something! I know what you're thinking!''It's good to see you up and about, Halt,' Selethen said gravely...Halt glared at the others and they quickly chorused their pleasure at seeing him back to his normal self. But he could see the grins they didn't quite manage to hide. He fixed a glare on Alyss.'I'm surprised at you Alyss,' he said. 'I expected no better of Will and Evanlyn, of course. Heartless beasts, the pair of them. But you! I thought you had been better trained!'...'Halt, I'm sorry! It's not funny, you're right... Shut up, Will.' This last was directed at Will as he tried, unsuccessfully, to smother a snigger.

John Flanagan

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, was unembittered laughter.

Sinclair Lewis

I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself.

Charlotte Eriksson

You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music.

M. Leighton

What the hell?” Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet, and he'd worn them to please her. Too bad there hadn't been enough time for the underwear to meet with an unfortunate accident. A lot could be blamed on a washing machine.

Rose Wynters

If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying.

Anthony T.Hincks

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

Bob Monkhouse

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

Rachel Hauck

I just want a life of happiness, laughter and possibility,I want a passion that I call my job, to pay my bills.I want to spend my time, eating good food & making unremarkable memories with the family I have left.I want friends that can be honest enough to tell me, if I fuck up, so I can fix it & also beautiful enough to know when I'm lieing in my smile. I want a lover who isn't afraid to love me with every inch of his heart but also fearless in keeping his individual voice as we grow together. And I will have all of it, because I believe I am worthy of it.

Nikki Rowe

Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing.

Stephen King

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Eben Alexander

We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…

James Lusarde

Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.

Rebecca McNutt

I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.

Margaret Atwood

He knows that 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

Ken Kesey

You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.

B.J. Neblett

Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

Rose Wynters

I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now." "Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time." I laughed. "It's true. He is.

N.R. Walker

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.

Avijeet Das

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

Mark Buchanan

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Groucho Marx

My dad used to tell me that laughter was like a cough or a sneeze - the body's way of trying to expel something. But instead of some phlegm in your throat, or some dust up your nose, a laugh happened when something really true got into your brain. Something so true that your system just couldn't stand it.

J. Ross Clara

We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Gloria Steinem

Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

Comedy was invented to make people forget,That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.

Cody Edward Lee Miller

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

Harold Ramis

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

Daniel Prokop

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

Bob Newhart

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Robert McKee

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

Craig Ferguson

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

Marty Rubin

A good artist should laugh often!

François Place

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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