"Our laughter is always the laughter of a group."
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"I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once."
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."
"When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!"
"I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair."
"...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days."
"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."
"And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!"
"Even in despair, man must laugh."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
"it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials."
"He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday."
"Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears."
"Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies."
"Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods."
"Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?"
"The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost."
"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
"Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter!"