Disbelief Quote by Peter Mayle

“If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary.”

— Toba Beta

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

— Eva Hoffman

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with…

— John C. Reilly

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

— August Bournonville

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms…

— Aidan Chambers

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find…

— Rollo May

“Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

— Ernest Hemingway

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.

— Samael Aun Weor

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief,…

— Jodi Picoult

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

— Alexander McCall Smith