Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone..."

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

More by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.”

“Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.”

“He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.”

“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”

“Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.”

“Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."”

“A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!”

“Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.”

“We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”