Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roberto Bolano

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Ty Burrell

I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

William Osler

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Khalil Gibran

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

Man Ray

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

Joe Wright

It made me laugh, so I put it in.

Mike Nichols

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s funny,

John Greenleaf Whittier

Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

Al Yankovic

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Basil Hume

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Russell Simmons

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Moby

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Pope Francis

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Keith Emerson

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.