Susan Sontag Quotes

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there's a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

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.

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh.

I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.