Laughter Quotes

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

Toni Morrison

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would enter a monasteryYou are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayerYou make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter cracklesThe sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your lifeIt's a painting hanging in a dark museumAnd sometimes you go and look at it close up

Guillaume Apollinaire

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

I have done this--made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Jennifer Donnelly

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

Ahmad Shamlou

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow to distinguish the sound of joy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

Wm. Paul Young

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

Dean Koontz

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Phil Callaway

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

Georgette Heyer

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Sheldon B. Kopp

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.

Carolyn Parkhurst

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.

The Click Five