Henri Bergson Quotes

If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.

When we laugh out loud and we realize that there are others who think the same as us, then we feel better.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

Laughter means sympathy.

You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.