Quotes about Laughter
I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.
— Margaret Atwood
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
— Victor Hugo
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.
— Anne Lamott
There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.
— John F. Kennedy
Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
— John Lennon
All intellectual labor is inherently humorous
— George Bernard Shaw
My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.
— Tina Fey
A jest breaks no bones.
— Samuel Johnson
The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.
— Marianne Williamson
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
— Marilyn Monroe