It is true that laughter does well for our health and well-being. It is a strong medicine that is totally free. Laughter brings the body and mind back into balance, lightens your burden, and elevates you from stress. Laughter is a tremendous resource for health and wellbeing – and no wonder they call it the best medicine.
Let’s take a look at these quotes on laughter for greater happiness and a longer life!
“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”
Madeleine L’Engle
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Charlie Chaplin
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
Milton Berle
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Albert Einstein
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.”
Herman Melville
“A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.”
Herbert Procknow
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”
Mark Twain
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
Bennett Cerf
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
Victor Borge
“From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
Hilaire Belloc
“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”
Henri Bergson
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“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.”
Kevin Hart
“An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
Tom Nansbury
“As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul.”
A Jewish Proverb
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Lord Byron
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know someone, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good person.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.”
Fred Allen
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
Washington Irving
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo
“A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh burst forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.”
Carolyn Birmingham
“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
Karl Barth
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
William Shakespeare
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
Oscar Wilde
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
Eileen Caddy
“Laughter is God’s blessing.”
Joseph Prince
“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man’s pocket, because it cut down the doctor’s bills like everything.”
Mark Twain
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
“True humor springs more from the heart than from the head; it is not contempt; its essence is love.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.”
Sebastien Roch
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“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 Dye
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
Buddha
“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”
Norman Cousins
“Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.”
Vir Das
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
Sean Connery
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
Virginia Woolf
“Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.”
Montaigne
“All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.”
Chris Hart
“Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.”
Jasper Carrott
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive.”
Bill Cosby
“I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.”
Maya Angelou
“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
Bob Newhart
“Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.”
Maurizio Cattelan
“I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you can’t laugh at life and the silliness of it all.”
David Hasselhoff
“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”
Martin Luther King Jr
“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“The highest state is laughter.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.”
Linda Ellerbee
“The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.”
Kevin Hart
“Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.”
Jakob Smirnoff
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
Jean Houston
“Cancer is probably the unfunniest thing in the world, but I’m a comedian, and even cancer couldn’t stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.”
Gilda Radner
“If you are happy and people around you are not happy, they will not allow you to stay happy. Therefore, much of our happiness depends upon our ability to spread happiness around us.”
Dr. Madan Kataria
“You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
Stephen King
“Laughter’s good, but it’s not love. It’s one aspect. One emotion you’re eliciting from your audience.”
Julian Barratt
“Laughter is timeless.”
Walt Disney
“The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.”
Jason Reynolds
“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
Milton Berle
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
Charles Dickens
“Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to health.”
Aristotle
“I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going.”
Jim Valvano
“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.”
Shirley MacClain
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
Khalil Gibran
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache, and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
Joan Lunden
“She had no scars for her happiness except her laughter lines.”
Srividya Srinivasan
“A good laugh recharges your battery.”
Anonymous
“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.”
Lewis Carroll
“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
Bob Hope
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”
Mort Walker
“Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one’s emotions, and of failure to repress the soul’s frivolity by a stern use of reason.”
Saint Basil
“Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.”
Eileen Caddy
“We don’t laugh because we are happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”
William James
“Daily laughter has been shown to elevate our moods, promote creativity and give us more energy.”
Robin Sharma
“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you’re dealing with fear or laughter – emotions that happen spontaneously – you hope it’s working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.”
Patrick Wilson
“Laughter can bring a new perspective.”
Christopher Durang
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
Eileen Caddy
“I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It’s the little things in life that make me happy.”
Faith Hill
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
Phyllis Diller
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.”
George Gurdjieff
“Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.”
Wavy Gravy
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
L.M. Montgomery
“People have to work to maintain happiness. It’s easy to be miserable. It’s easy to stay miserable. It’s easy to live in a place where nothing’s working and not being able to work your way out of it. It’s much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.”
Tituss Burgess
“A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”
John Cleese
“Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy.”
Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
George R.R. Martin
“Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.”
Norman Cousins
“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.”
Judith Viorst
“Laughter is therapy for physical pain, emotional pain, and the everyday pain of life.”
Terri Guillemets
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”
Lao Tzu
Wrapping Up
Our 100 quotes on laughter remind us how important it is that we ease up and enjoy a good laugh. Although as adults, our responsibilities tend to weigh us down at times and we will forget to laugh. We must remember that humor lightens our burdens, gives us hope, and elevates our stress. So don’t forget to have a good laugh. You need it more than you think!
