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Hilarity Quotes

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Scott Thompson
Cancer, Hilarity, Kind

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

Richard Russo
Heart, Knives, Hilarity

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rose, Joy, Hilarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

Stacey Levine
Ironic, Creepy, Hilarity

Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.

Robert Plant
Thinking, Insanity, Hilarity

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rose, Joy, Hilarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Lucius Beebe
New York, Hilarity, Nervous

Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

Jill Ciment
Waiting, Ambitious, Hilarity

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Czeslaw Milosz
Years, Hilarity, Language

Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Cassandra Clare
Beautiful, Nerd, Hilarity
Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

Alice Munro
Laughter, Compassion, Hilarity
Alice Munro (2007). “Away from Her: Stories”

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