Latest Quotes

“So despite all of our world issues (of which there are many), I’m happy to not be eating penicillin bread, while chain-smoking cigarettes while being measured for an ironing table and waiting for my baby to arrive in cellophane.”

— Jane Drinkard, 20 American Ads That Prove The ‘Good Old Days’ Never Existed

“And there's the long knowing of love — all of it unsayable.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, 9th Duino Elegy

“See, I live. On what? Childhood and future are equally present. Sheer abundance of being floods my heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, 9th Duino Elegy

“And may the Lord give me the grace to cry.”

— Pope Francis, Pope Francis, Visiting Auschwitz, Asks God for the ‘Grace to Cry’

“Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms.”

— Daniel Becker, Keep Your Mouth Closed: Aquatic Olympians Face a Toxic Stew in Rio

“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”

— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

— Victor Borge, The Best of Victor Borge Acts One & Two

“You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.”

— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

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

— Erma Bombeck, Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Laughter is poison to fear.”

— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”

— Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”

— Seán O’Casey, The Green Crows

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

— Robert Frost, Robert Frost's Poems

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carrol

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”

— Veronica Roth, Divergent

“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. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

— Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: How to Be Lovely : The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life (Hardcover); 2004 Edition

“If he'd dropped his lifelong belief just because someone came up with an objection, it's not just that you'd be surprised, to a certain degree you'd think Quine was irrational. We all begin our inquiries somewhere, with a large complex of presuppositions and convictions. We should all be open to cha…”

— David Shatz, The Overexamined Life Is Not Worth Living