Quotes about Laughter
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
— Genesis 18:12
And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
— Genesis 18:13
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
— Genesis 18:15
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
— Genesis 21:6
You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
— Job 5:22
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
— Job 8:21
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
— Job 39:18
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
— Job 41:29
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
— Psalm 126:2
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
— Proverbs 14:13
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
— Ecclesiastes 2:2
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:3