laughter

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate." - , Return to Laughter (1954)

Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over a lifetime it all adds up. That's why we're here, William. We're a a part of him, who he is, just as he is a part of us. You still don't understand, do you?"I didn't. But as I stared at the man and he stared back at me, in my father's dream I remembered where we'd met before. "And what did my father do for you?" I asked him, and the old man smiled. "He made me laugh," he said.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

My dad__ contentment is all that matters to me. When he__ laughing, I__ laughing. When he__ happy, I__ happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

Maturity,_ Bokonontells us, __s a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.