Laughing Quotes - Page 38

• Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Violence, Levity, Supreme

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

  Anne Lamott

  Adorable, Sick, Loving You

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• His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Hard Times, Unbroken, Reason

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House

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• Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Watches, Alive

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.165, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Winning, Knowing

  Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”

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• Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

  Arina Tanemura

  Heart, Feelings, Please

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• The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.168, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that her true love was there, somewhere, living a life that would one day intersect her own. Knowing this made every day full of sweet possibility. Knowing that her true love lived and breathed and went about his day under her same sun made her fears vanish, her sorrows small, and her hopes high. Though she did not yet know his face, the color of his eyes, still she knew him better than anyone else knew him, knew his hopes and dreams, what made him laugh and cry.

  Martine Leavitt

  Girl, Dream, Sweet

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• Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Running, Laughing So Hard, Giving

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.20, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

  Kelly Link

  Makeup, Hair, People

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• Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Self, Discovery

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• Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jewels, Language, Spokes

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to any­one who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way.

  Mari Mancusi

  Boys, Thinking, Trying

  Mari Mancusi (2006). “Boys that Bite”, p.12, Penguin

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• The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

  Ray Bradbury

  Animal, Facts, Serious

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• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Devil, Peter, Contagious

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• [Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Rabbits, Watches

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• That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

  Pascal Mercier

  Children, Moving, Magic

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• “Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”

  Kate Ross

  Self, Deny, Restraint

  "The Devil in Music: Julian Kestrel #4".

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.

  Sophie Scholl

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

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• One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Thousand, Ten

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.17, Vintage

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• And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that's why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I'd ever thought I'd be cheered up again.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Team, Stupid, Games

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Young Love

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• If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

  John le Carre

  World, Things To Do, Ifs

  "John le Carré, The Art of Fiction No. 149". Interview with George Plimpton, www.theparisreview.org. 1997.

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• We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears. "We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara

  Terry Goodkind

  Simple, Tears, Would Be

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.207, RosettaBooks

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