Friedrich Nietzsche Laughter Quotations

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him...

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.