Quotes about Laughter
If we believe Scripture, we can reverently seek to enjoy happiness and laughter with God himself. I often remind myself that God is always with me. He wants us to know we can be happy both in him and with him—not only after we die, but as we live today. When I'm alone, whether I'm meditating or reading or looking at photos or watching a movie, any happiness or laughter I experience is a laugh I share with God because, in fact, I am not alone!
— Randy Alcorn
The effect of laughter on the body is immediate. Laughing actually lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, and increases muscle flexion. • Laughter increases your resistance to infections. • Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being.
— Joyce Meyer
My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,I laugh at what you call dissolution,And I know the amplitude of time.
— Walt Whitman
The woes constitute the most radical criticism, for they are announcements and anticipations of death. The woes of Luke are pronounced against the rich (v. 24), the full (v. 25a), the ones who laugh (v. 25b), and the ones who enjoy social approval (v. 26)—which is to say that the death sentence is upon those who live fully and comfortably in this age without awareness or openness to the new future coming.
— Walter Brueggemann
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
— Washington Irving
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
— Danny Boyle
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
— Dorothy Sayers
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
— Martin Luther
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
— St. Basil
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
— Martin Luther
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson