99 Laughter Quotes To Enjoy

Laughter truly is the best medicine. It has the power to uplift spirits, reduce stress, and bring people together in a way that few other things can. Whether you’re having a rough day or just looking for a reason to smile, diving into a compilation of witty, humorous, and downright hilarious quotes can brighten anyone's mood. We’ve meticulously gathered the top 99 laughter quotes guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and remind you of the joy and lightness laughter brings to our lives. So, get ready to giggle, chuckle, and maybe even guffaw as you explore these gems of comedic wisdom!

1. “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” - Victor Borge

2. “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

3. “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” - Rafael Sabatini

4. “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

5. “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” - Erma Bombeck

6. “You have as much laughter as you have faith.” - Martin Luther

7. “Laughter is America's most important export.” - Walt Disney

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

9. “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

10. “There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.” - Hillary DePiano

11. “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

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

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

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

15. “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” - Lucy Maud Montgomery

16. “A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.” - Alan Wilson Watts

17. “It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.” - John Steinbeck

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

19. “What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.” - Stephen King

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

21. “You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry” - Craig Ferguson

22. “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

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

24. “Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” - Daniel Prokop

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

26. “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.” - Nikolai Gogol

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

28. “I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.” - Isobelle Carmody

29. “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

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

31. “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

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

33. “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” - Jean Houston

34. “Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.” - Gretchen Rubin

35. “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

36. “I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.” - Craig Ferguson

37. “We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

38. “All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.” - Hubert Selby Jr.

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

40. “Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.” - Françoise Sagan

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

42. “I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.” - Robert A. Heinlein

43. “Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.” - Ken Scholes

44. “I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.” - Jennifer Donnelly

45. “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

46. “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

47. “There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.Be careful what you show the world.You never know when the wolf is watching.” - Jennifer Donnelly

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

49. “(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

50. “In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.” - Phil Callaway

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

52. “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

53. “There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.” - Josh Billings

54. “Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.” - Lisa Mantchev

55. “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

56. “It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.” - Ellyn Bache

57. “She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.” - L.M. Montgomery

58. “It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. I like to think of it in that way; I like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together, and as you go down, hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchildren, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age.” - Robert Ingersoll

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

60. “It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.” - David Levithan

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

62. “Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.” - Mark Helprin

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

64. “Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.” - Philip Pullman

65. “She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.” - Markus Zusak

66. “You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.” - Jeannette Walls

67. “Halt eyed them balefully. They were all being so obvious about not mentioning his sudden reappearance that it was even worse than if they had commented on it...'Oh, go on!' he said. 'Somebody say something! I know what you're thinking!''It's good to see you up and about, Halt,' Selethen said gravely...Halt glared at the others and they quickly chorused their pleasure at seeing him back to his normal self. But he could see the grins they didn't quite manage to hide. He fixed a glare on Alyss.'I'm surprised at you Alyss,' he said. 'I expected no better of Will and Evanlyn, of course. Heartless beasts, the pair of them. But you! I thought you had been better trained!'...'Halt, I'm sorry! It's not funny, you're right... Shut up, Will.' This last was directed at Will as he tried, unsuccessfully, to smother a snigger.” - John Flanagan

68. “The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.” - Georgette Heyer

69. “Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.” - Georgette Heyer

70. “When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?” - Osayi Osar-Emokpae

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

72. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.” - Walt Disney Company

73. “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

74. “Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.” - Craig Ferguson

75. “You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud” - Annoying Orange

76. “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

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

78. “I believe in roses. And I believe in putting roses into a vase and sitting the vase on the table. I believe in getting lost and being found, I believe in going barefoot, and in laughter! My religion is to laugh at myself, whenever I can! I believe in the sunlight and in grey skies with big, beautiful clouds!” - C. JoyBell C.

79. “The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...” - C. JoyBell C.

80. “We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.” - Rosario Castellanos

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

82. “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

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

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

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

86. “¿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

87. “Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.” - jay woodman

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

89. “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

90. “no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.” - Kirby Larson

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

92. “Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.” - James Martin

93. “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

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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “-Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows" -thump- "lumps of meat" -thump. His widened. "Give me milk" -thump- "warm and sweet."I stopped abruptly, pressing my lips together as I realized what I had just sung. The ridiculousness of it struck me forcibly and I knew I could not goon without laughing. We stared at each other,locked in a stalemate, his eyes brimming with laughter, his lips trembling. My chin quivered. Against my will, a sound burst from me. It was a very unladylike snort.-” - Julianne Donaldson

98. “The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.” - Timothy Hallinan

99. “Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.” - Zora Neale Hurston