Quotes about laughter
laughter loss humanity
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. Stephanie Beatriz
laughter enough made
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. Viktor E. Frankl
laughter drama character
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive. Vanessa Redgrave
laughter faces problem
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue. Vaclav Havel
laughter children giving
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. Sophocles
laughter self laughing
Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny. Stephen King
laughter gay pox
Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay. Stan Smith
laughter what-if tears
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? Soren Kierkegaard
laughter simple feel-good
Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? Stephenie Meyer
laughter night two
So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.
laughter eye dark
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.
laughter laughing tragedy
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa. Sid Caesar
laughter integrity humor
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
laughter matter thrones
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. Taki Theodoracopulos
laughter children soul
True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company. Sophia Loren
laughter missing
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. Ringo Starr
laughter drinking laughing
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz
laughter thinking sacred
I think laughter is a sacred act. Tom Shadyac
laughter tears serious
Laughter is more serious than tears. Toni Morrison
laughter tough-times way
Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times
laughter gone pay
I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me. Tamora Pierce
laughter self tears
God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? Sylvia Plath
laughter autumn wind
I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires. Rupert Brooke
laughter joy sorrow
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. Rumi
laughter paradise may
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
laughter rain passion
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese. Tom Robbins
laughter reality thinking
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
laughter laughing involuntary
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. Tom Lehrer
laughter people laughing
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? Tom Baker
laughter thinking humanity
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations. Steve Allen
laughter eye arms
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
laughter laughing deception
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. Thomas Carlyle
laughter men keys
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man