Laughter Quotes - page 4

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. (Jim Butcher)
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Determine to live life with flair and laughter. View quote
Maya Angelou
I have always been a laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laughter to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed. View quote
William Saroyan
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. View quote
Georges Bataille
The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated” celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality. View quote
Georges Bataille
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. View quote
David Gemmell
Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured. View quote
David Gemmell
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex. (Madeline Kahn)
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. View quote
Angela Carter
Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger? View quote
Thiruvalluvar
I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me. View quote
Amanda Palmer
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. View quote
John Cleese
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. View quote
Donna Tartt
Laughter is carbonated holiness. View quote
Anne Lamott
I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass - gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Laughter always forgives. View quote
Martin Amis
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. View quote
Chuck Jones
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. (Harpo Marx)
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. View quote
Deepak Chopra
I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter. View quote
Martin Short
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! View quote
Hilaire Belloc
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. View quote
Rafael Sabatini