Laughter Quotes - Page 23

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Laughter drives shouting away.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.