Quotes on Laughter

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.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

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.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.