Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“ “Laughter is the effervescent form of holiness.” ”

— Annie Lamott

“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Laughter is the divine effervescing.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“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

“There's a lot of humiliation in living, but that's okay, for if the gods are always laughing, then surely at times they must be…

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious…

— Roger Scruton

“I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim…

— Tobin Wilson

“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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