Inspirational Quote by William Saroyan

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

— Norm Papernick

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”

— Gerald Schroeder

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

— Alfred Jarry

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in…

— Rafael Sabatini

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

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“My dad used to tell me that laughter was like a cough or a sneeze - the body's way of trying to expel something.…

— J. Ross Clara

“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…

— Guy Sajer

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

— Edward St Aubyn

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

— Kay Redfield Jamison