1,453 Quotes About Laughter

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.