# Quotes about laughter - Quotes: 33 - Authors: 27 - Broader topic: [Quotes about humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.json ## Quotes > Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face. [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) · p. 481 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/laughter-is-sunshine.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > “Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful.” [Betty White](https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white.md) · [If You Ask Me](https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white/if-you-ask-me.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white/if-you-ask-me/laughter-keeps-everyone.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed. [Sören Kierkegaard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard.md) · [Either/Or](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/eitheror.md) · p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/eitheror/when-i-was.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead. [Sebastian Faulks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks.md) · [Birdsong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong.md) · p. 344 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong/if-they-could.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > They didn’t know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you’re alive, when you really shouldn’t be. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [Nation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation.md) · p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation/they-didnt-know.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Yet, even today we still laugh sad laughs, remembering our innocent incredulity. Our inability to imagine certain forms of evil, the scope and depth of some strains of ruthlessness. We laugh, to hide the gaping hole where our hearts used to be. Guguletu killed us . . . killed the thing that held us together . . . made us human. Yet, we still laugh. [Sindiwe Magona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona.md) · [Mother to Mother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother.md) · p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother/yet-even-today.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming. [Neil Strauss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-strauss.md) · [Emergency](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-strauss/emergency.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-strauss/emergency/we-make-fun.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Pudd'nhead Wilson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/puddnhead-wilson.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/puddnhead-wilson/there-is-no-character.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > For a moment, I was able to stand back from my own mind and see it from a deeper perspective, as it were. There was a brief shift from thinking to awareness. I was still in the men’s room, but alone now, looking at my face in the mirror. At that moment of detachment from my mind, I laughed out loud. It may have sounded insane, but it was the laughter of sanity... “Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.” That’s what the laughter seemed to be saying. [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [A New Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/for-a-moment.md) Topics: [consciousness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consciousness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. [Lawrence Durrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell.md) · [Clea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell/clea.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell/clea/like-all-young.md) Topics: [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [ambition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/smiles-and-tears.md) Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. [Nicole Krauss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss.md) · [The History of Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love.md) · p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicole-krauss/the-history-of-love/once-upon-a-time-there.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Christmas Carol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-christmas-carol.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-christmas-carol/it-is-a-fair.md) Topics: [joy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Scroooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let then laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, the thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grims, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Christmas Carol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-christmas-carol.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-christmas-carol/scroooge-was-better.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [The Pickwick Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/the-pickwick-papers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/the-pickwick-papers/when-a-man.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > You laugh openly and loudly about something, even entirely innocently, with one or two people in a café, in a conversation, in a street: everybody who hears or sees you laughing like this will turn and look at you with respect; if they were talking, they will stop, they will seem humbled; they will never dare to laugh at you; if they had previously looked at you boldly or condescendingly, they will lose their boldness and condescension toward you. In the end, simply laughing out loud gives you a definite superiority over all those near and around you, without exception. The power of laughter is terrible and awful: anyone who has the courage to laugh is master over others, in the same way as anyone who has the courage to die. [Giacomo Leopardi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giacomo-leopardi.md) · [Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giacomo-leopardi/zibaldone-the-notebooks-of-leopardi.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giacomo-leopardi/zibaldone-the-notebooks-of-leopardi/you-laugh-openly.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh. See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.’ Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her, though I am old and worn; I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other sufferers want that so she may have all. And yet I can laugh at her very grave — laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say ‘Thud, thud!’ to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek. My heart bleed for that poor boy — that dear boy, so of the age of mine own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his hair and eyes the same. There, you know now why I love him so. And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man — not even you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son — yet even at such a moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, ‘Here I am! here I am!’ till the blood come dance back and bring some of the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.” [Bram Stoker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker.md) · [Dracula](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula/do-not-think.md) Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [grief](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. [Amy Tan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan.md) · [The Joy Luck Club](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-joy-luck-club.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-joy-luck-club/then-you-must.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [innocence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Malcolm listened to her laughter, and for the first time in his life he knew that everything was going to be all right. Niceness, he realized, it was not enough, and Love was only part of the rest. You had to have laughter, too. Laughter would make everything come out right in the end, or if it didn’t nobody would notice. [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md) · [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md) · p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/malcolm-listened-to-her.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Canned laughter: After some supposedly funny or witty remark you can hear the laughter and applause included in the soundtrack of the show itself - here we have the exact counterpart of the Chorus in classical tragedy; it is here that we have to look for 'living Antiquity.' That is to say, why this laughter? The first possible answer - that it serves to remind us when to laugh - is interesting enough, because it implies the paradox that laughter is a matter of duty and not of some spontaneous feeling; but this answer is not sufficient because we do not usually laugh. The only correct answer would be that the Other - embodied in the television set - is relieving us even of our duty to laugh - is instead laughing for us. So even if, tired from a hard days stupid work, all evening we did nothing but gaze drowsily into the television screen, we can say afterwards that objectively, through the medium of the other, we had a really good time. [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/canned-laughter-after.md) Topics: [media](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top, spreading his laugh out across the water — laughing at the girl, at the guys, at George, at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier... and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. [Ken Kesey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey.md) · [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/while-mcmurphy-laughs.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Maybe not you, buddy, but the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. [Ken Kesey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey.md) · [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/maybe-not-you.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman's name and address hasn't got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, that laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes and with bands on their teeth. She could set all society by the ears. For all any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that. [Robert Penn Warren](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren.md) · [All the King's Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren/all-the-kings-men.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren/all-the-kings-men/her-eyes-were.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER. [Thomas Hobbes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes.md) · [Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan.md) · p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/sudden-glory-is-the.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Palm Sunday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday/jokes-can-be-noble.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/maturity-bokonon-tells.md) Topics: [growing up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world. [Peter Ustinov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov.md) · [Dear Me](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me/i-was-irrevocably.md) Topics: [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > My mother ... had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. [Richard P. Feynman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman.md) · ['What Do You Care What Other People Think?'](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman/what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think.md) · p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman/what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think/my-mother-had.md) Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md), [mother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > I grok people. I am people… so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/i-grok-people.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery … and a sharing … against pain and sorrow and defeat. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/i-had-thought.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. [Herman Melville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville.md) · [Moby-Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/i-know-not.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. [Herman Melville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville.md) · [Moby-Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md) · p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/a-good-laugh.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md) > For the mockers are those who die comically, and God laughs at their comic ending, while the nobler part, the part of tragedy, is theirs who endured the mockery. [Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/for-the-mockers.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [laughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter.md)