He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.
To die laughing, must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.[Les larmes du monde sont immuables. Pour chacun qui se met à pleurer, quelque part un autre s’arrête. Il en va de même du rire.]
The old ones they laugh last sometimes, when the young, clever ones do not laugh at all.
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.[Der Lachende hat die furchtbare nachricht nur noch nicht empfangen.]
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.
Ready to split his sides with laughing.[translation by John Willis Clark]
