Laughter Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image ““Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.”” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Laughter Shakespeare-criticism Twelfth Night
“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.” — Evgeny Zamjatin Copy Share Image
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to… — George Herman Copy Share Image
“For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of our exile… — D.P. Watt Copy Share Image
“To laugh is to dare, because laughter dares fate and sorrow and the weight of all injustices.” — Sara Douglass Copy Share Image
“Can there be joy and laughter when always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness, should you not seek light?” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Laughter sometimes hurts us, and sometimes it makes us feel better. No matter how down you feel... laughter brings a new ray of hope.… — Keiko Tobe Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
There isn't a sound better than your own child's laugh...There isn't a sight better than your own child's smile...and Nothing is better than being… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image