Causes Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

— Ambrose Bierce

“That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter”

— Henri Bergson

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

— Max Eastman

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,…

— Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

— Bill Maher

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“Researchers believe laughter may in fact be a release valve when we experience the discomfort and excitement of uncertainty, but without fear of harm.”

— Nir Eyal

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

— Zero Mostel

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and…

— Jean Houston

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.…

— Madeline Kahn