Laughing Quotes - Page 9

• Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

  Pat Conroy

  Laughter, Air, Pewter

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.

  Sherman Alexie

  Goodbye, Lonely, Laughter

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Plans, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Fate

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• I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

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• maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Song, Memories, Ignorance

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Nests, Firsts

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wind, Games

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• Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

  Nancy Mitford

  Making Love, Cry, Odd

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.155, Vintage

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sadness, Perfect, Joy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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• We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

  Maya Angelou

  Maine, Way, England

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

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• You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

  Emily Saliers

  Eye, Cry, Laugh At Yourself

  "Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously" by Mike Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

  Milan Kundera

  Drinking, Sky, Water

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• Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Justice, Life Is, Jest

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• In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

  James Wright

  Blue, Tree, Yards

  James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

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• To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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• A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Loud, Vacant

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• Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Boys, Mad, Heaven

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• The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Morning, Attitude, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson

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• Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

  Helene Cixous

  Beautiful, Men, Listening

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