Laughter Quotes

2173 Laughter quotes by 1292 unique authors

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage… — George Santayana
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of… — Albert Schweitzer
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. — Douglas Adams
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away — Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter… — Torey L. Hayden
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
True life lies in laughter, love and work. — Elbert Hubbard
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know… — Henry Miller
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.… — Katharine Hepburn
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from… — Euripides
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along,… — Alice Walker
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun — Charles Bukowski
You have as much laughter as you have faith. — Martin Luther
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. — Oprah Winfrey
Laughter is the language of the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as… — Eduardo Galeano
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… — Truman Capote
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. — Henry James

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