Laughter Quotes
Quotes tagged as "laughter"
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![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
![Leigh Bardugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534446099i/4575289._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“Wait,” he said. The burn of his voice was rougher than usual. “Is my tie straight?”
Inej laughed, her hood falling back from her hair.
“That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground.”
― Crooked Kingdom
Inej laughed, her hood falling back from her hair.
“That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground.”
― Crooked Kingdom
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212686605i/45882._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.”
― The Complete Poems
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.”
― The Complete Poems
![James Kavanaugh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233857075i/288137._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.”
― Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights
― Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
![Gretchen Rubin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1667320867i/21246._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
![Mark Helprin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1376934367i/8146._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
― Winter's Tale
― Winter's Tale
![Alan W. Watts](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427892345i/1501668._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
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![Fredrik Backman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1493098924i/6485178._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champagne bubbles would have sounded if they were capable of laughter.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
![Marjane Satrapi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1303646506i/6238._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Benjamin Alire Sáenz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1386527200i/4841310._UX200_CR0,58,200,200_.jpg)
“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
![Friedrich Schiller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401861378i/1399243._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
― Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
― Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
![Josh Sundquist](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1346099325i/2031113._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.”
― Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
― Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
![Neil Postman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193415026i/41963.jpg)
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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