The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but…

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

— Jim Butcher

Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

— Rajneesh

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here’s another. Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled. We don’t…

— Ayn Rand

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

— Alice Meynell

“Laughter is like crying.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

“Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond”

— Eowyn Ivey

“the best kind of laughter is laughter over ourselves.  Because then you don't just become happy – you become free.”

— H.A. Weidman

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

— Henri Bergson

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…

— John Cleese

“Niceness, he realised, was not enough, and Love was only part of the rest. You had to have laughter, too. Laughter would make everything…

— Tom Holt

“This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain…

— James Baldwin

“God shined his laughter down upon us like a giant heat lamp and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole”

— Anne Sexton