Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Disappointment

• Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Tears, Doe

• I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Air, Cities

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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