62 Quotes About Laughter

Laughter is often celebrated as the universal language, transcending cultural and linguistic barriers to bring people together in moments of joy and connection. It's a simple yet profound expression that can transform our mood, mend our spirits, and even strengthen human bonds. As we navigate the complexities of life, laughter serves as a gentle reminder of the delightful and often unexpected joys that await us. Whether you're looking to brighten your day or share a smile with a friend, our curated collection of the top 62 quotes about laughter captures the essence of this uplifting force, celebrating its power to heal, connect, and inspire. Join us as we explore these delightful words and embrace the joy of laughter.

1. “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.” - W.H. Auden

2. “Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.” - Pat Conroy

3. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” - Kurt Vonnegut

4. “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

5. “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.” - Carl Sagan

6. “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.” - Audrey Hepburn

7. “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

8. “The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.” - Friedrich von Schiller

9. “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” - Mark Twain

10. “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.” - Charles Bukowski

11. “The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.” - Lenny Bruce

12. “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

13. “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” - Lord Byron

14. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” - Herman Melville

15. “It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

16. “I love it--I just love it.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. “Our flesh is a gift of laughter.” - Harley King

18. “We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.” - Lise Deharme

19. “They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.” - Toni Morrison

20. “No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.” - Harold Ramis

21. “People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.” - Josh Sundquist

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

23. “You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.” - Isobelle Carmody

24. “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

25. “If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.” - Wm. Paul Young

26. “If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.” - Steve Brown

27. “Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.” - Miriam Toews

28. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either” - Golda Meir

29. “We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.” - Lauren Groff

30. “Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.” - Stephen King

31. “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.” - Maya Angelou

32. “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

33. “That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.” - Sheldon B. Kopp

34. “(La risa) es una reina que viene y va. No le pregunta a nadie, no elige los momentos adecuados (...), la Reina Risa viene a mi y me grita al oído: ¡Aquí estoy! ¡Aquí estoy!, hasta que la sangre regresa y trae a mis mejillas un poco de la luz del sol que siempre lleva consigo.” - Bram Stoker

35. “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.” - Stephen Fry

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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.

39. “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

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

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

42. “When I die, I plan to be laughing hysterically.” - Minari Endou

43. “Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly sane in telling her all this. And she was perfectly sane in listening to it and nodding and urging him to tell her more. It was the rest of the world that was-She doubled over as a wave of laughter hit her.Mulder looked at her and started laughing too. They stood there in the cemetery in the darkness and the drizzle, laughing their heads off.'You know we're crazy,' Scully finally said.'Of course we are,' Mulder gasped out.” - Les Martin

44. “We're all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.” - Will Rodgers

45. “Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” - Dave Brenner

46. “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

47. “They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it’s free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.” - Mindy Levy

48. “...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...” - John Geddes

49. “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

50. “In comedy laughter settles all arguments.” - Robert McKee

51. “To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.” - Ilyas Kassam

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

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

54. “¿La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…” - Alejandro Casona

55. “You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.” - Mayra Santos-Febres

56. “I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.” - Jancee Dunn

57. “A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.” - James Carlos Blake

58. “While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know's there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.” - Ken Kesey

59. “Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.” - Steve Goodier

60. “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

61. “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

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