#laught

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#flame #isolation #laughter #loss #sacrifice

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. ↗

— Criss Jami

#children #contagious #contagiousness #funny #humor

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. ↗

— Margaret Sackville

#ever #except #haggard #highest #laughter

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#frightful #laughter #more #nothing #than

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

— Francoise Sagan

#enough #laughter #never #power #shared

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#celebrate #dancing #death #end #laughter