90+ Best Laughing Quotes About the Power of Laughter

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Our curated selection features witty sayings, playful observations, and downright silly humor to brighten your day.

We cannot love anybody with whom we never laugh. – Agnes Repplier

As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul. — Jewish ProverbPin

There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie

Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path

The size of a man’s understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. – Samuel Johnson

Laughing Quotes

Laughter, at least for a while, makes you forget your troubles

Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans, we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. – Linda Ellerbee

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame, and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them, I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter, and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Idgie used to do all kinds of crazy harebrained things just to get a laugh. She put poker chips in the collection basket at the Baptist church once. She was a character all right, but how anybody could ever have thought that she killed that man is beyond me

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. The population has indeed increased

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. — Kenny Ausubel

Insomnia sharpens your math skills because you spend all night calculating how much sleep you’ll get if you’re able to ‘fall asleep right now

From here on after let’s stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow. – George Strait

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe

Cancer is probably the unfunniest thing in the world, but I’m a comedian, and even cancer couldn’t stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through. — Gilda Radner

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.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye

A good laugh is a sunshine in the house. – William Thackeray

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart. – Deepak ChopraPin

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity…When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and make eye contact more frequently

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. — Mevlana Rumi

Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push; you have to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Houston

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. — Dr. Seuss

I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious

When humor goes, there goes civilization. – Erma Bombeck

The greatest prayer you could ever pray is to laugh every day.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh – it’s as simple as that.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. – Woody Allen

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! – HafezPin

This is how I think of us when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoenix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — Henry Louis Mencken

I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.

Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation. – St. Francis de Sales

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, and take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron in

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her

He chuckled at the memory, and then, in the instant, tears were burning in his eyes and rolling down his cheeks. That was always the way of grief: laughter and tears, joy and sorrow

Grim care, moroseness, and anxiety—all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. – Shirley MacClain

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. — Elsa Maxwell

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy, But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise. — William Blake

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?” – Julia Roberts

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. – Khalil Gibran

Laughter is the corrective force that prevents us from becoming cranks

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I want to contribute to that. – Ellen DeGeneres

While there is an infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr

There’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong.

Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I would not do that thing

Laughing quotations make you remember not to take things too seriously, and that life can be pleasant and fun.

Laughter is one of the best medicines around for relieving stress and for creating a more healthy spirit. And, one of the greatest aspects is that it is free and can be done by anyone. – Byron Pulsifer

The human race has only one effective weapon and that is laughter.

Pablo looked different, and it took me a moment to figure out how. He had a smile, a smile that showed his teeth, a smile that made his eyes scrunch up. He was making a little high-pitched chipmunk sound. Pablo was laughing.

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. — James Langston Hughes

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.

A well-balanced person finds both sides of an issue laughable. – Herbert Procknow

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. – Bob Hope

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo in

Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. — Linda Ellerbee

True humor springs more from the heart than from the head; it is not contempt, and its essence is love. – Thomas Carlyle

I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die

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

When you lose your laugh you lose your footing. – Ken Kesey

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laugh, have religion, wage war, and kiss with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

I have not seen anyone dying of laughter, but I know millions who are dying because they are not laughing. – Dr. Madan Kataria

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. – Sebastien Roch

Well, you know what they say: If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me

Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable. — Viktor Frankl

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw

A woman is like a tea bag: You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Laughter makes anger, stress, and worries go away and lets happiness and a good mood fill you.

Daily laughter has been shown to elevate our moods, promote creativity, and give us more energy.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh

Laughter was a balm. It held panic at bay and it seemed to come easily. In those extreme circumstances, it became unbearably funny just to act normal. If they could still laugh, they were all right

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. — Peter Ustinov

My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they have all their teeth and no toothbrush.

Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life. – Marcus Aurelius

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, and happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.– Leo F. Buscaglia

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown

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