Laughter Quotes

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

What a force is laughter.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.

Laughter scares off lust.

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.