Joseph Addison Quotes

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

What I think you should do is imagine people in their underwear but then also imagine them crying, and that - that is truly relaxing.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing