“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.” NeedsFeelsPainLife IsAbilityLaughingHumourCommunicationAnxietyLaughterGainsDistanceReliefAbsurdityHierarchyLaugh At LifeLove And Communication Author:Sara Davidson
“Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.” Life IsRealizingNaturalLaughingTendenciesFuneralLife Is Precious Author:Lester Bangs
“So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.” Life IsFearLaughingImagineNormalLaughterCivilizedBulls Author:James Clavell
“I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.” SaidEyeLife IsEnjoyLaughingBehaviorIdiotTragicSense Of HumorGogol Author:Mel Brooks
“So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.” IfsLife IsLaughingLuckyTitlesBookstoresMake Me LaughBladderHappenstance Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.” WorldLife IsDealsLaughingComicDramaticLife Is LikeLumpsHave A Laugh Author:Ricky Gervais
“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.” IfsLittlesHardLightLife IsFightingDarknessLaughingEasierBattleDeterminationDeterminedActivismGood FightFight The Good Fight Author:Sojourner Truth
“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.” MenLittlesImportantHomeDreamLife IsGoalLaughingWifeModernHavensCreaturesComfortableApproachComplexesTendenciesPipeLife GoalDemisePapaSlippers Author:Arlene Dahl
“Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.” WayLife IsLaughingImagineCrySurpriseMake You Laugh Author:Niki de Saint Phalle