“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
Terry Pratchett book Night Watch
Source: Night Watch
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
Terry Pratchett book Night Watch
Source: Night Watch
Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691) French writer
Théâtre des ris et des pleurs
Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs,
Tu nous fais voir comment voisins
Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
2015-06-02
Coulter: Jenner Transgender Behavior a ‘Mental Illness,’ Shouldn’t Be Celebrated
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/03/coulter-jenner-transgender-behavior-a-mental-illness-shouldnt-be-celebrated/
2015
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Variant: I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: Song Don't Care
“We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.”
Theodore Sturgeon book More Than Human
Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 2 “Baby is Three”, p. 94
Context: That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Variant: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Source: A Moveable Feast