Quotes About The Power Of Laughter

#1. I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Charlie Chaplin

#2. I don't think I've ever heard you laugh. Ever. You face life like it's a warrior come to chop your head off, and you're just biding your time fretting until it does. Haven't you ever heard of the power of laughter?

Noelle Crawford

#3. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Sir Fulke Greville

#4. There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.

Angela Carter

#5. It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.

Steve Rizzo

#6. The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

John Goodman

#7. This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

John Goodman

#8. And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.

Ayn Rand

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

Jerome Lawrence

#10. I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

Barbara Kruger

#11. I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

Brene Brown

#12. Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.

C.S. Lewis

#13. If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

Catherine Ponder

#14. 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

#15. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Jim Butcher

#16. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Wayne Dyer

#17. One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

#18. There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

Hillary DePiano

#19. I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

Brian Boitano

#20. Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Stephen King

#21. I have done this - made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Jennifer Donnelly

#22. who have a lightness of touch, an informality based on amusement at their own ineptitude, bring the simplest of gifts to others - the releasing power of laughter."31

Robert C. Dykstra

#23. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.

Michael Connelly

#24. I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. If engines of love and power drive mankind, surely the bearings would burn to a frazzle without the oil of laughter.

Smoke Blanchard

#26. Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.

Miya Yamanouchi

#28. Words start wars and end them, create love and choke it, bring us to laughter and joy and tears. Words cause men and women to willingly risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Our world, as we know it, revolves on the power of words.

Roy Williams

#29. Laughter is the evidence that the chokehold of shame has been loosened. Knowing laughter is the moment we feel proof that our shame has been transformed. Like empathy, it strips shame to the bone, robs it of its power and forces it from the closet.

Brene Brown

#30. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Zero Mostel