Laugh Because Quotes

#1. They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

Zooey Deschanel

#5. Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.

Bryan R. Dennis

#6. I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Lois Lowry

#7. How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

Daniel Keyes

#8. I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

Kate Clinton

#9. With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

John Mayall

#11. Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Jim Fergus

#12. I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Paula Deen

#13. People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.

Sue Gardner

#14. We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

Ringo Starr

#15. You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

Craig Ferguson

#16. I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Adam Savage

#17. We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh.

William James

#18. Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid."
I laughed pretty hard, hard enough that I felt where the chest tube had been.
"You laugh because it's true," he said.
I laughed again.
"It's true, isn't it!

John Green

#19. I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Emily Mortimer

#20. The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

James Thurber

#21. Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Al Jarreau

#22. Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

Yara Shahidi

#25. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Hafez

#26. Children laugh for no reason at all. They laugh because they're alive and they're in your arms. It's senseless, but this senseless moment pounds against my heart more than a sound fact.

Krista Ritchie

#27. Start Laugh, because this which you will heard will make you laugh. One student from my school today 3.25.2016 - said this
"How many much costs this Headphones?" This sentences it really sucks!

Deyth Banger

#28. They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

Moira Kelly

#29. People laugh because they're nervous, or to cover up tension, or to flirt, or because there's some instant applause meter in their head telling them that it's the socially acceptable thing to do. Genuine laughter, I don't even think that happens daily.

Lindsey Leavitt

#30. Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Nigella Lawson

#31. I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.

Cheryl Ladd

#32. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Bohumil Hrabal

#33. William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

Robin S. Sharma

#34. You all laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same.

Unknown

#35. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.

Hanif Kureishi

#36. I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

Lydia Lunch

#37. One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

Mireille Guiliano

#38. Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

Courteney Cox

#39. For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

Jeremy Irvine

#40. It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.

Gail Zappa

#41. A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Franz Grillparzer

#42. Why can't I be admitted to the ... bosom of the operation?" I leaned toward him but almost started to laugh because "bosom" was such a funny word and my innuendo was more Tina Fey than Angelina Jolie.

Claire Gillian

#43. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

#44. I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

Courtney Gains

#45. I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

Jim Carrey

#46. When you're younger you've got a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities, and I make them laugh because I know exactly what they're going through. When you get older you think, it's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.

Anthony Hopkins

#47. I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#48. Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

Charles Bukowski

#49. Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

Mindy Kaling

#50. We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh.

Bob Ross

#51. I always laugh because if I walk through the mall in my gym clothes a ponytail I get recognized but if I'm in street clothes or dressed up not very many people notice.

Kim Lyons

#52. I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.

Sunday Adelaja

#53. Then the time he had left was going to be spent making his wife laugh. Because try though he might, he couldn't shake the quiet dread that settled in the pit of his stomach that tonight was the last night of normalcy he had on this earth.

Jessica Scott

#54. I'm alone even in a crowded room of people. I'm alone every time I laugh because you're not there with me. It's an empty dream when the other half of me is somewhere else.

S.D. Hendrickson

#55. Why do I want you? Because you are smart. Because you are beautiful. Because you make me laugh. Because you are sensual and passionate and the way you give me your body drives me absolutely fucking wild, and now I am rock-hard again for you. There. Satisfied?

Lauren Blakely

#56. I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there

James Baldwin

#57. You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power.

Stephen King

#58. I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

Robert A. Heinlein

#59. The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

Corey Taylor

#60. Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?" Cameron barked a laugh. "Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn't really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say?

Jennifer Ashley

#61. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Anne Lamott

#62. I laugh because your pain is amusing.

Lauren Dane

#63. My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.

Zach Galifianakis

#64. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much ... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Robert A. Heinlein

#65. People always laugh, because they don't expect words like shit to come one of someone so petite, someone with a voice so quiet, so sweet.

Stephanie Perkins

#66. Enjoy everything and everybody that makes you laugh,because one day you wont laugh at all

Julia King

#67. We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

#68. Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Madeleine Albright

#69. I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.

Marlon James

#70. But laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

Neal Shusterman

#71. a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having

Ilona Andrews

#72. It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

Matt Taibbi

#73. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#74. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Bill Maher

#75. I laugh and go back to looking at my magazine. Actually, it's not really a magazine. It's a math journal, because I'm super cool like that.

Tarryn Fisher

#76. How do you know you told a good punch line, a good joke? It's because they laugh. How do you know you've got a good scary punch line? It's because they jump out of the seat or scream. So the best reward is one you can listen to.

Katie Holmes

#77. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Robert Fulghum

#78. My twitter fans are all pretty weird. A lot of them are kind of weirdly sexually aggressive. Some of them made me laugh and then I instantly tried to forget them, because I'd hate to find myself in a bar kind of drunk and accidentally use one.

Stephen Merchant

#79. A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

Tim Heidecker

#80. Note found in the patron suggestion box:
"You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes in!!!!!

Gina Sheridan

#81. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian D'Arcy James

#82. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

Lisa Morgan

#83. It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

Adrian Edmondson

#84. It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

RuPaul

#85. They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Kurt Cobain

#86. I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.

George Lucas

#87. I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Harry Connick Jr.

#88. So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Camryn Manheim

#89. Soren huffed. "I saw her looking at me when we were changing into our uniforms."
"She was looking at you because you're built like a bull."
Soren's laugh was nervous, clipped. "Is that good?"
"It'd be great if she were a cow.

Veronica Rossi

#90. I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

Richard Rodgers

#91. One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

#92. When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Bill Murray

#93. People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Lorne Michaels

#94. All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

Todd Solondz

#95. So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart attack, it may be because you want the listener to exercise. Stories are tools to create social cohesion and to get humans to strategize together.

Peter Guber

#96. If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

#97. For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.

Gabriel Iglesias

#98. So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

Kanye West

#99. Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.

Taika Waititi

#100. Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Dick Gregory