Laughter Quotes - Page 3

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious laughter, laughter "beyond joking."All churches, all underwear manufacturers, all generals, all political parties, are in agreement about that kind of laughter, and all of them rush to put the image of the two laughing runners on the billboards advertising their religion, their products, their ideology, their nation, their sex, their dishwashing powder.

Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Don’t lose the positive power to make right choices that will convert your tears into smiles.

Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.

I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

You're going to make it;You're going to be at peace;You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;You're going to do great things.

Isn't God the one who urges us to "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like "Rejoice in the Lord always" while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.

MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha!MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:

He laughs best who laughs last.

Comedy was invented to make people forget,That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.