You laugh when something is funny or when you are feeling happy. And you can’t get enough of it, because laughing never fails to make you feel good. So make every laugh count for better and brighter days with the following 169 quotes about laughter.
Quotes About Laughter
1. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
2. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo
3. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. – Josh Billings
4. A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can’t see clearly. – Emily Mitchell
5. Laughter feels like our flotation device — it won’t pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on. – Emery Lord
6. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. – Zero Mostel
7. Laughter lets me relax. It’s the equivalent of taking a deep breath, letting it out and saying, ‘This, too, will pass’. – Odette Pollar
8. Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bulletproof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. – Norman Cousins
9. Seven days without laughter makes one weak. – Mort Walker
10. So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. – Gordon W. Allport
11. Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. – James Thurber
12. A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. – John Cleese
13. Laughter is poison to fear. – George R.R. Martin
14. May laughter fill your home, relieve your stress, and strengthen your friendships. Do not let a day go by without laughing; it is good for your health. – Catherine Pulsifer
15. Can I give you a handful of laughter
A smidgen of giggles to boot,
A cupful of tease and a comical sneeze
Followed by a hilarious hoot.
– John McLeod
16. Cultivate the habit of laughter. – Og Mandino
17. Laughter is the measurement of happiness. – Creed McGregor
18. Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. – Isobelle Carmody
19. Laughter is a very special gift. We have to be very careful that it is used appropriately and not at the expense of others. But if you want to give the best “medicine,” help others learn to laugh. – Floyd Kendall
20. A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. – Madeleine L’Engle
21. As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul. – A Jewish Proverb
22. He who laughs, lasts! – Mary Pettibone Poole
23. Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. – Reinhold Niebuhr
24. I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. – Linda Ellerbee
25. I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable. – Viktor Frankl
26. I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. – Peter Ustinov
27. If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them. – Dr. Madan Kataria
28. If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing — trees and stones and stars with you. – Osho
29. If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know the man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you’ll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man…All I claim to know is that laughter is the most reliable gauge of human nature. – Feodor Dostoyevsky
30. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. – Stella & Blake
31. Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson
32. Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation. – St. Francis de Sales
33. Let your heart by merry. – Judges 19:6
34. The beauty of the world has two edges; one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf
35. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E E Cummings
36. The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. – Bennett Cerf
37. Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. – Benjamin Franklin
38. Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul. – Richelle E. Goodrich
39. We look before and after, and pine for what is not; our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Shelley
40. Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. – Sean O’Casey
41. Laughter is carbonated holiness. – Anne Lamott
42. The only real laughter comes from despair. – Groucho Marx
43. You have as much laughter as you have faith. – Martin Luther
44. Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann
45. It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now. – Steve Goodier
46. It’s normal to shy away from illness and death. It’s natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. – Ellyn Bache
47. There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie
48. Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny. – Stephen King
49. 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
50. Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times. – Edward McPherson
51. In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. – Phil Callaway
52. Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul.
A hug at the right moment and a kind shoulder to lean on,
Is the sprinkle of magic that keeps us walking towards hope.
– Mimi Novic
53. Kid, don’t miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable. – Bryan R. Dennis
54. The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.
When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
– Malcolm de Chazal
55. Our flesh is a gift of laughter. – Harley King
56. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Huston
57. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival. – Ingrid Betancourt
58. Humor is a tonic for life’s trials. Laughter is the music of the soul. May your day have plenty of each. – Richard Farley
59. I gave in to a deep and healthy laughter that must have added ten years to my life and given birth to a thousand blue butterflies somewhere in the world. – K.B. Ezzell
60. There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing—to laugh without reason, to have joy in one’s heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being…. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
61. I mean when you leave the balloons that you carry in your laughter behind on my ceiling, well, I like them better than flowers. – Sabrina Benaim
62. Whenever I experienced some disappointment in my life, it was always laughter that came to my rescue. – Marty Rubin
63. Haven’t you ever thought how futile and ludicrous life is sometimes, and that if you don’t take refuge in laughter you’ll end up in a far worse place? – Erica James
64. We bleed our sorrows dry on the chance that laughter will save what is left of our dignity. – Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
65. Laughter bounced off the seats like party balloons, each ear catching its sound, magnifying it, carrying it forwards and backwards, soaring on a ripple of words. – Maggie Harris
66. Laughter’s meant to be loving, wrapping itself around you like a hug, but when it’s aimed at me, it seems cruel. – John Marsden
67. Decorate your inner dreams with love, light and laughter. – Ginny Toole
68. Smiles and laughter are contagious; feel free to spread these viruses. – Tapan Ghosh
69. Laughter sets your entire soul ablaze with happy endorphins and shifts your vibrations. – Sanjo Jendayi
70. Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie. – Matt Haig
71. There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below. – Gordon R. Dickson
72. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically. – Mikhail Bakhtin
73. I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings. – D. Travers Scott
74. Laughter is much better than anger. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
75. Laughter is a threat to aging. – Ashlecka Aumrivani
76. Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. – Josh Billings
77. Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively. – Balroop Singh
78. Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well. – Sharon E. Rainey
79. Laughter is like a little miracle we all experience everyday. – Carmela Dutra
80. Laughter is the only free emotion – the only one that can’t be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we’re in love because, if we’re kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality…laughter is an orgasm of the mind. – Gloria Steinem
81. Laughter is an instant vacation. – Milton Berle
82. Laughter is timeless. – Walt Disney
83. Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. – Rumi
84. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
85. Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy. – Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
86. I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. – Cat Stevens
87. The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. – Milan Kundera
88. Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing. – Kevin Hart
89. Laughter is God’s blessing. – Joseph Prince
90. I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just – I crave it. – Gabriel Iglesias
91. Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. – Red Skelton
92. Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age… Humour is universal. – Jeremy Lloyd
93. Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling. – Wavy Gravy
94. I do believe that laughter is the best medicine – it cures everything. – Radhika Apte
95. Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. – Allen Klein
96. I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards. – Bill Engvall
97. Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. – George Gurdjieff
98. And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. – Lea Thompson
99. Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect. – Marlo Thomas
100. Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. – Yakov Smirnoff
101. Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
102. Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. – Agnes Repplier
103. Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us! – Douglas Fairbanks
104. All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it. – Chevy Chase
105. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. – Arnold H. Glasow
106. Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. – Carol Channing
107. Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There’s a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion. – Sufe Bradshaw
108. Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. – Thomas Hobbes
109. The highest state is laughter. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
110. Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulder of a troubled world. – Bettenell Huntznicker
111. I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you can’t laugh at life and the silliness of it all. – David Hasselhoff
112. Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter – like a wail – acknowledges and replies to pain. – Tim O’Brien
113. Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. – Max Eastman
114. I know it’s corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through. – Andy Dick
115. Laughter is beyond truth – the ultimate happiness. – Govinda
116. Laughter is the mind’s intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. – Edmond de Goncourt
117. Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It’s a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It’s very often discomfort. It’s some sort of explosive reaction. It’s very complex. – Madeline Kahn
118. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it – that’s why it’s funny. – Mike Nichols
119. There’s a lot of power in laughter. – W. Kamau Bell
120. Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions. – Maurizio Cattelan
121. I think laughter is a sacred act. – Tom Shadyac
122. Now if the harvest is over
And the world cold,
Give me the bonus of laughter
As I lose hold.
– John Betjeman
123. I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good. – Anthony Ray Hinton
124. I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it’s almost always better to laugh than to cry. – Teresa Medeiros
125. One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don’t know if it’s true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that’s a fantasy you can’t make up. – Joyce DeWitt
126. Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn’t. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you’re going to experience one or the other. – David Dobkin
127. Laughter can bring a new perspective. – Christopher Durang
128. Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there’s an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to. – Eric Mabius
129. I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn’t it? – Edward St Aubyn
130. Laughter made you live better and longer. – Gail Parent
131. A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. – Shirley MacClain
132. Laughter is necessary today. In spite of turmoil in the world there is goodness. In spite of the nay-sayers and negative comments, there is a golden sunset and bright sunrise. – Esther and Richard Provencher
133. The laughter of children can inspire us to relax and enjoy the simple things that life offers. – John McQuilkin
134. Laughter also provides a sense of well-being, contentment, joy, and boosts your spirit and the attitude of those around you. – Sandra V. Abell
135. At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationships by one simple test: laughter. How much two people, or a family, laugh together is the surest single measure of how well things are going. – Brian Tracy
136. We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn. – Gina Barreca
137. Laughter lights up the darkness. – A.D. Posey
138. Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe. – Russell Anthony Gibbs
139. Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep. – Dan Groat
140. Laughter is the most important paradise of life. – Debasish Mridha
141. Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can’t always speak together. – David Darson
142. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower. – Peggy Toney Horton
143. Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you. – Darrell Calkins
144. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. – Toni Morrison
145. Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. – Mindy Greenstein
146. Laughter is a tangible evidence of hope. – Michael Jr.
147. Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on. – Georges Bataille
148. It’s laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it’s the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain. – Emilie Barnes
149. Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed! – Mehmet Murat ildan
150. Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is laughter. – Moffat Machingura
151. Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
152. Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!! – Monika Zands
153. Laughter clears the atmosphere and it gives liberty to every soul. – Euginia Herlihy
154. A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter. – L.M. Montgomery
155. Buy laughter with tears, and you’ll be rich forever. – Michael Bassey Johnson
156. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? – Fulke Greville
157. Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. – Erma Bombeck
158. Laughter is almost always accompanied by realization; it’s the most fun way to learn. – Andrew Frank
159. Laughter is free, free your laughter. – Anonymous
160. Laughter is the language of the soul. – Pablo Neruda
161. Laughter is the old port in the storm of life that if lucky, sees many of us through many turbulent times, and can be found anywhere if we just lighten up. – Karen Bergen
162. The only honest art form is laughter. – Lenny Bruce
163. Laughter is just like champagne — only without the headache afterwards. – Elizabeth Jane Howard
164. And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. – Erica Jong
165. Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer. – Harriet Rochlin
166. Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing. – Immanuel Kant
167. Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. – Eben Alexander
168. We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. – Rosario Castellanos
169. Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing. – Bronnie Ware