Building Quote by Chogyam Trungpa

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something…

— Henri Bergson

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

— Laura Bohannan

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

— Milan Kundera

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

— Wyndham Lewis

It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked on acting:…

— Eileen Atkins

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's…

— John Krasinski

Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry…

— Aleksey Igudesman

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I…

— Jean Cocteau

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with…

— James Broughton