Laughing

Famous quotes containing the word laughing:

“As if that hand
squeezing crow’s blood
against a white sky
beside an idiot’s laughing face
were real.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Test every work of intellect or faith
And everything that your own hands have wrought,
And call those works extravagance of breath
That are not suited for such men as come
Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason—as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)