51 Laughter Quotes To Enjoy

Laughter truly is the best medicine, bringing a burst of joy and a wave of positive energy that can transform even the gloomiest of days. In a world where stress and uncertainty often cloud our days, a good laugh offers a refreshing escape and a moment to reconnect with the lighter side of life. That's why we've curated a special collection of the top 51 laughter quotes to infuse your day with cheer and remind you of the simple delight that laughter brings. Whether you're looking for a quick chuckle, a smile, or a deep belly laugh, these quotes are sure to brighten your day and spread some much-needed positivity.

1. “A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman, or any other of the many fine things we have in our treasure trove? Choose, but only one thing!" For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed the gods in this wise: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose one thing — that I may always have the laughs on my side." Not one god made answer, but all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my wish had been granted and thought that the gods knew how to express themselves with good taste: for it would surely have been inappropriate to answer gravely: your wish has been granted.” - Soren Kierkegaard

2. “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.” - William Hazlitt

3. “We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.” - Marjane Satrapi

4. “Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.” - Jim Butcher

5. “And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco. ” - Jack Kerouac

6. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” - Charles Dickens

7. “The only real laughter comes from despair.” - Groucho Marx

8. “I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.” - Beaumarchais

9. “Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...” - Isobelle Carmody

10. “And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

11. “Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when you think about them. It’s funny and you don’t scream, as long as it’s not you. If it’s somebody else you can laugh.” - Stephen King

12. “A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.” - Emily Mitchell

13. “It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort.” - Christopher Hitchens

14. “I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.” - Christopher Vogler

15. “An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.” - Madeleine L'Engle

16. “As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.” - Charlotte Brontë

17. “Jos joku saa sinut nauramaan, haluat varmasti tavata hänet uudestaan!” - André Wickström

18. “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” - Veronica Roth

19. “The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that "it’s a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal.” - V.S. Ramachandran

20. “You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music.” - M. Leighton

21. “Laughter is poison to fear.” - George R.R. Martin

22. “There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.” - Bob Newhart

23. “It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything.” - C. JoyBell C.

24. “You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer.""Did he show you slides?"We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.” - Philip K. Dick

25. “You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.” - Cassandra Clare

26. “I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.” - John Green

27. “He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.” - John Steinbeck

28. “We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.” - Franny Billingsley

29. “She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

30. “Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.” - Ethel Russell-Ajisomo

31. “Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.” - Bronnie Ware

32. “Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” - Kurt Vonnegut

33. “He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond!” - Faraaz Kazi

34. “Parece que en los estallidos de risa lo corpóreo hiciera prevalecer y afirmar su existencia, por encima de lo racional, y esa emergencia del cuerpo tan ostentosa ha concitado el rechazo, el desdén y la amonestación. Afirmo lo anterior a partir de haber observado la recurrencia de llamados hacia la contención: reír estrepitosamente siempre ha sido visto como signo de mala educación.” - Martha Elena Munguia Zatarain

35. “Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.” - Robert Schimmel

36. “It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.” - Toni Morrison

37. “Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your throat As if you were never to be loved again If you lived in the old days you would enter a monasteryYou are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayerYou make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your lifeIt's a painting hanging in a dark museumAnd sometimes you go and look at it close up” - Guillaume Apollinaire

38. “She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.” - C. JoyBell C.

39. “You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.” - BJ Neblett

40. “Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.” - Eben Alexander

41. “A good artist should laugh often!” - François Place

42. “My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.” - Rebecah McManus

43. “It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.” - Katherine Mansfield

44. “The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.” - Cherie Carter-Scott

45. “It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.” - George MacDonald

46. “The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word?FoodHe threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.” - Sandra Brown

47. “میرا یہ دعوی نہیں کہ ہنسنے سے سفید بال کالے ہو جاتے ہیں' اتنا ضرور ہے کہ پھر وہ اتنے بُرے معلوم نہیں ہوتے۔” - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

48. “The SkeletonChattering finch and water-flyAre not merrier than I;Here among the flowers I lieLaughing everlastingly.No: I may not tell the best;Surely, friends, I might have guessedDeath was but the good King's jest,It was hid so carefully.” - G.K. Chesterton

49. “We broke into laughter—the kind that’s your only recourse when you feel like curling up in a fetal position and whimpering like a little girl.” - M.A. George

50. “Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.” - Evinda Lepins

51. “I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me.” - Brian Andreas