Elliott Smith Quotes

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.

I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

Men need to laugh more.

People want to laugh. People want to feel good.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

Laugh every day as much as you can.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu