Quotes about laughter
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 loss humanity
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. Stephanie Beatriz
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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
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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 work expression
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. Scott Westerfeld
laughter years singing
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears. Steven Tyler
laughter laughing ready
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. Robert Burns
laughter please-me laughing
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation. Richard Steele
laughter men laughing
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
laughter sadness unhappy
Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
laughter laughed irresponsible
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus. T. S. Eliot
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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
laughter blessed men
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. Sydney J. Harris
laughter expression bully
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. Sylvester Stallone
laughter flesh weakness
But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. Umberto Eco
laughter pain love-is
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
laughter prayer facts
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith. Reinhold Niebuhr
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What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
laughter men laughing
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
laughter men healthy
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.
laughter facts intimate
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.
laughter prayer prelude
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
laughter law-of-attraction joy
Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures. Rhonda Byrne
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What is life without laughter? Trenton Lee Stewart
laughter light strange-places
I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. Veronica Roth
laughter laughing crime
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime. Robert Green Ingersoll
laughter unique noise
Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. Steve Coogan
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously. Stephen Fry
laughter thinking sickness
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.