#laughter

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#lawless #nature #our #part #springs

No art is possible without a dance with death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#comedy #laughter #art

El arte no es posible si no baila como pareja de la muerte, decía. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #carpe-diem #dying #holding-hands #laughter

The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#drinking #harry-dresden #laughter #sanity #sanya

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship #laughter #pretending #dating

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter? ↗

— Neil Postman

#dystopia #laughter #media #age

I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cry #crying #death #funeral #inappropriate