35 Quotes About Happiness and Laughter

Happiness is not something that comes easily in life. These quotes about happiness and laughter capture the best that life has to offer and bring us.

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”

“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”

“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”

“I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”

“Laughter is America’s most important export.”

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

“Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”

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

“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

“Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”

“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.”

“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

Laughter brings out the best qualities and nature about those that we are surrounded with.