Quotes about laugh
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“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Life

“Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right?
He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Fate, Imagination, Thinking

“Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Hunger, Time

“You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Love, Hope

“If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Housing

“Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Home, Boy

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Parting

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Shadows

Love, Good Morning, love

“I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I'll maketake him for a driving lesson tomorrow."

Dad backed away from the counter. Ash scowled. I laughed and continued upstairs.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Rising

Food

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

Agatha Christie book The Big Four

Source: The Big Four

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

“I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.”

Nancy Pearl (1945) American librarian and writer

People

“Here's to opening and upward…
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Life, Way, Thinking

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Sea

“I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying."
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: Demon Lord of Karanda

World, Cry

“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 book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Angels, Loneliness, Cry, Flying

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”

Baruch Spinoza book Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Source: Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Hate, Understanding

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”

Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer

Life

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Fools, Wine, Singing, Dance

“Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

Variant: A good laugh is a sunshine in a house.

Housing

“They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If. You. Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Waiting

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

Love

“Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny."
"That's why no one's laughing."
-Raphael & Jace, pg.272-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“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 (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

People, Pleasure, Laughter

“Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you’re in a bag and you can’t get out and somebody’s always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Pain, Time

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Love, Hope, Understanding, Kiss

“I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.
You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,
And long enough to see some change.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Pick Yer Nose
Song lyrics

Love, Light, Rage, Change

“Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Sleep, Cry

“The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Thinking, Parting

“You are stingy with our words," she accused, then laughed gayly as she swept around, tossing over her shoulder a roguish look that drew the length of him. "But I am more generous, my lord. You are indeed a fine sight."
-Aislinn”

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (1939–2007) American writer

Source: The Wolf and the Dove

“That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Learning

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Madness

“I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Angels

“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Kiss

“China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. "Because I'm a skeleton" he explained.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Age

“Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Star

“Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

Source: JPod (2006)
Context: You know what? When you read a book, you’re totally lost in your own private world, and society says that’s a good and wonderful thing. But if you play a game by yourself, it’s this weird, fucked-up, socially damaging activity.
In my neighbourhood, all the teenage boys are dying because they’re driving their cars using videogame physics instead of real-world physics. They turn too quickly and change lanes too quickly. They don’t understand traction or centripetal force. And they’re dropping like flies.
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?
Don’t discuss Sony like it’s a great big benevolent cartoon character who lives next door to Astro Boy. Like any company, Sony is comprised of individuals who are fearful for their jobs on a daily basis, and who make lame decisions based pretty much on fear and conforming to social norms — but then, that’s every corporation on earth, so don’t single out one specific corporation as lovable and cute. They’re all evil and greedy. They’re all sort of in the moral middle ground, where good and bad cancel each other out, so there’s nothing really there — which, in it’s own way, far darker than any paranoid or patriarchal theory of Sony.
Here’s a much simpler example of geeks and neural processing malfunctions: Has anybody experienced a geek environment in which said geeks wear perfume or deodorant? Chances are no. While advanced microautistics are more commonly men than women, both share a marked dislike of scent.

Quotes

“He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Thinking

“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Past

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”

Andrea Levy book The Long Song

Source: The Long Song

Love, Good Morning, love

“He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either."
I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

Moms, Thinking

“Laugh now, cry later.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Source: The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Cry

“The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.”

James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Source: Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Feeling

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”

Chelsea Handler Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

Source: Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang.
"When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Joy

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”

Anne Perry (1938) English author

Source: The Whitechapel Conspiracy

Men

“Tohr laughed softly. "Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?"
She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind."
Oh. Great.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

World, Flying

“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Life, Waiting

“Does it hurt?”
He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.”
“I’ll try not to be funny.”
“Epic fail, beautiful.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Beauty, Kiss, Hurt

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 5
Context: Maybe not you, buddy, but the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.