H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Laughter Quotes

Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."

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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

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