I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

If you can laugh, you’re less likely to cry.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Laughter distances us from that which is ugly and therefore potentially distressing, and indeed enables us to obtain paradoxical pleasure and therapeutic benefit from it.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?

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

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Maybe laughter after someone dies is the way we tell ourselves that they are still alive in some way. Or that we are.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.