Piero Scaruffi (1955) Italian writer
Elitist Art, Unpopular Art and Popular Art http://scaruffi.com/phi/syn157.html
“Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.”
"Iconoclasts" Sundance Channel Original Series episode 3.03 (Original Air Date: 8 November 2007)
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Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer 1946Related quotes
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[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]
“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
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A Book of Burlesques (1916)
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“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
William Blackstone book Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book IV, ch. 27.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Source: Les Misérables