Laughing Quotes - Page 12

• I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

  Derek Walcott

  Sunset, Dark, Sea

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.128, Macmillan

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• She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

  George R. R. Martin

  Father, Knives, Bed

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• Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Support

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.154, Bantam

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• When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Aunt, Understanding, Should

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• One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

  Peter Cook

  Way, Beaten

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• Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

  Jim Fergus

  Tears, Defense, Lasts

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan

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• I laugh at my heart, and do its will

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, My Heart

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• Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Magic, Singing, Delight

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

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• People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Talking, People

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.28, GENERAL PRESS

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• Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.

  Jane Green

  Laughter, Fun, Kids

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• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiration, Blow, Mind

  'Solitude'

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• It's so easy to laugh,
  It's so easy to hate,
  It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  Steven Morrissey

  Strength, Laughter, Kindness

  "Song: 'I Know It's Over'". 1986.

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• ... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Heart, Eye, Fate

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• we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, Funeral, Radio

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• Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

  Chris Wooding

  Children, Sarcasm, Names

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• I find the humor in life, and laugh easily

  Doreen Virtue

  Life Humor

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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Pie, Email

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Autumn, Night

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

  Ken Kesey

  People, Guy

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

  Ani DiFranco

  Trying

  Song: AS IS, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Wall, Clothes

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• If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?

  Rumi

  Sleep, Reflection, Clouds

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• Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.

  Miranda July

  Block, Airports, Squares

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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