No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it…

— Black Elk

“No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself. How can I be separated and yet in union?”

— Rumi

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them…

— Ransom Riggs

“I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter—yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I joined him, laughing because we had looked death in the face and lived to tell about it, laughing because I didn't want to…

— Amy Harmon

“The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts. The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows. The nurse of creation has said, Let them…

— Rumi

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

— Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both…

— Rumi

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on…

— Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

— Rumi

Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

— Sivananda

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

“Laugh and grow strong”

— Ignatius of Loyola

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero