Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Seneca the Younger

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• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Laughter

• Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Laughter

• Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Music
  • Help
  • Singing

• Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Work
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Up

• My faith guides my life.

  

  Kay Hagan
  • Life
  • Faith

• Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

  

  Nell Zink
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Concern

• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Laughter
  • Weeping