1,453 Quotes About Laughter

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.