Top 40 Quotes About Laughter (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”

— Phyllis Diller

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Smile Quotes

3. “Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.”

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Medicine Quotes

4. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Funny Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Happy Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

5. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

— Margaret Mead

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6. “Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.”

— Deepak Chopra

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7. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

— Herman Melville

Also featured in: Adventure Quotes, Quotes About Laughing

8. “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.”

— Robin Williams

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Funny Office Quotes, Funny Best Friend Quotes

9. “The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Mark Twain

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11. “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

— Thomas Sowell

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12. “A smile is the universal welcome.”

— Max Eastman

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Smile Quotes, Life is Beautiful Quotes

13. “The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”

— Pablo Picasso

14. “I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

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15. “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Darkness Quotes

16. “I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Quotes About Childhood, Quotes About Growing Up

17. “What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Life is Beautiful Quotes

18. “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Different Quotes, Quotes About Light, Quotes About Laughing

19. “When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes

20. “Laughter is the language of the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Soul Quotes, Quotes About Laughing

21. “Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.”

— Yogi Berra

22. “Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Anxiety Quotes

23. “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Smile Quotes

24. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Wellness Quotes

25. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Culture Quotes

26. “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

— Richard Dawkins

27. “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

Also featured in: Smile Quotes

28. “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Different Quotes, Joy Quotes

29. “Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.”

— Neil Armstrong

30. “I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”

— Bill Hicks

31. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”

— Steven Wright

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Humor Quotes, Humility Quotes

32. “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

— Isaac Asimov

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Truth Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

33. “I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

34. “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”

— Soren Kierkegaard

35. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

— Jane Austen

36. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Different Quotes, Birthday Quotes

37. “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

— Bill Watterson

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Space Quotes, Humor Quotes

38. “I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”

— Fred Allen

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Witty Quotes, Funny Birthday Quotes, College Quotes

39. “Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.”

— George Bernard Shaw

40. “I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.”

— Kimberly Elise