1,453 Quotes About Laughter

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .