1,453 Quotes About Laughter

  • Author Franz Kafka
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    In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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  • Author Immanuel Kant
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    Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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  • Author Jamaica Kincaid
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    Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

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  • Author John Kufuor
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    We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

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  • Author Karen Kingsbury
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    The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

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  • Author Klaus Kinski
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    I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

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  • Author Mary Karr
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    Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

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  • Author Milan Kundera
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    I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

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