L Quotes
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“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
Source: America
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.”
Source: America
“Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.”
Source: The Robin Sharma Pack
“Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.”
“Laughter produces in the air
a vibration more closely related
to the vibration of God's voice
when He commanded the
universe to come into being
than any other sound.”
“Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.”
“Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“Laughter really is the best medicine and there are no strict lines to be drawn for its use. You shouldn't assume you understand why someone is joking about something and you should never ever rob somebody of their sense of humor. You might just be taking away their lifeline.”
Source: How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
“Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.”
“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.”
“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”
“Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.”
Source: A Doll's House
“Laughter's meant to be loving, wrapping itself around you like a hug, but when it's aimed at me, it seems cruel.”
Source: Checkers
“Laughter scares off lust.”
“Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.”
“Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.”
“Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,
May they be strong to keep hate out
And hold love in.”
“Laughter shines your inner light on gifts you’ve always had but don’t always see.”
Source: The Simple Book of Infinity
“Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“Laughter survives... it has to survive.”
“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.”
Source: The Dark Tower
“Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.”
Source: What the L?
“Laughter, tears, joys, and sorrow must all abide in a house of love, for these are the things that make up life.
And if the love of God is in every corner and crack of your empty home, it will be filled with the strength and comfort that will enable you to get through life. Home is where God's heart is.”
Source: Strength in Measure
“Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.”
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.”
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)”
“Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.”
“Laughter Unites”
“Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer?”
“Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them; but hidden behind a thin wall.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.”
“Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful.”
Source: The Narrow Road Between Desires
“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”
Source: Chalice
“Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul.
A hug at the right moment and a kind shoulder to lean on,
Is the sprinkle of magic that keeps us walking towards hope.”
“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.”
Source: How to be funny: discovering the comic you
“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”
“Laughter, yelling when surprised, crying—all are signaling mechanisms built to tell those around you the truth faster and more honestly than you could consciously through speaking effort.”
Source: sciVive
“Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.”
Source: Epitaph for George Dillon
“Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.”
Source: The Humans: A Novel
“Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.”
“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”
Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files
“Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce
“Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.”
“Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.”
“Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.”
“laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.”
“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.”