The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.