1,453 Quotes About Laughter
- Author John Vanbrugh
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He laughs best who laughs last.
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- Author Kurt Vonnegut
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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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- Author Peter De Vries
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
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- Author Scott Viets
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We're having a 20-year-old sitting next to a 70-year-old laughing at the same stuff.
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- Author Alan Watts
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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- Author Alan Watts
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There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.
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- Author Alan Watts
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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter...
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- Author Alan Watts
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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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- Author Alice Walker
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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