Quotes Tagged "laughter"

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

The earth laughs in flowers.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.