“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”
Cat Stevens
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
“And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”
“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”
James Thurber
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