Fierce Quote by George Santayana

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

— James Thurber

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

— Seneca the Younger

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

— Khalil Gibran

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true…

— Samuel Beckett

One man cries as the other laughs.

— Joshua Miller

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

— Baltasar Gracian

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is…

— Francis Aveling

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

— William James

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the…

— Jean Paul

What cannot be said, will get wept.

— Jim Harrison

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

— Christopher Marlowe