You felt he was laughing at the world, not with it.

 

You felt he was laughing at the world, not with it.
--
Fred Lieb

 

Damon Runyon

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I have always felt that I was different from others. I felt it when I was small. I felt that there was a soul in me. I saw the world from a height of many thousand meters. Even when I was thrashed it was of no concern to me; I could tuck Reykjavik under my arm and go away with it.

 

Halldor Laxness

 

This horrible decade where all of us men tried to be individual rebels...by wearing the exact same flaming skull on a bedazzled Ed Hardy thermal. I have three of them, I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing with you.

 

Christopher Titus

 

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
You must
       be laughing at me
for feeling you are laughing at me
       if you are not laughing at me.

 

Ronald David Laing

 

I have never had the sort of experience the mystics talk about, never felt a revelation of reality through or beyond nature, never felt like Adam in Paradise, never felt, in direct experience, that the world is wholly other than it seems...The nearest I have come to such experiences are glimpses of my own creative powers...and these are moments or intervals of inspiration rather than vision. I’m not sure that I want it unless I can have clarity about other things with it. (p. 60–1)

 

Northrop Frye

 

I'm not laughing at you. [...] I'm laughing at the whole stupid business. We face the biggest threat in our history and they give me a helmet too big,and you a helmet too small, and tell us we can't exchange them. It's too much. Really.

 

David Gemmell