Laughter | Catalyst Quotes

17 Jan 2019

“Life is Funny; Laugh Like Hell”

“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine a few cocktails and a box of crayons.” (Robert Fulghum)

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“Three life rules guaranteed to bring you peace in life.
1. Keep your mouth shut.
2. Keep your big mouth shut.
3. Keep your stupid big mouth shut.” (Peter Weisz, The Universal Mind)

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” (Mae West)

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“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” (W. C. Fields)

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“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” (George Carlin)

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“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.” (Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope)

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“When I think of loyalty of pets, I think of Adam and Eve leaving paradise, followed by their dog.” (Robert Brault, Reflections)

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“From a diary: ‘Turning 80 this year – a first-ever for me. Will be new at it and will doubtless make beginner mistakes. But looking forward to the opportunity.’” (Robert Brault, Reflections)

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“If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell.” (David Cook)

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13 Feb 2014

“He Who Laughs, Lasts”

“You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” (Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis)

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“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” (Albert Einstein)

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“Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.” (Norm Papernick)

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“When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” (Alan Alda)

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“A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods.” (Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune)

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“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.” (Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale)

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“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.” (Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills)

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

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“To get through this life and see it realistically poses a problem. There is a dark, evil, hopeless side to life that includes suffering, death, and ultimate oblivion as our earth falls into a dying sun. Nothing really matters.

On the other hand, the best side of our humanity finds us determined to make life as meaningful as possible NOW; to defy our fate. Everything matters. Everything.

It is easy to become immobilized between these two points of view – to see them both so clearly that one cannot decide what to be or do.

Laughter is what gives me forward motion at such intersections. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it’s because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release. Some years ago I came across a phrase in Greek – asbestos gelos – unquenchable laughter. I traced it to Homer’s ‘Iliad’, where it was used to describe the laughter of the gods.

That’s my kind of laughter.

And he who laughs, lasts.” (Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It)

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