Art Quote by Hartley Coleridge

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

— Bible

“Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;…

— Anne Brontë

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind…

— Joseph Addison

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet…

— Bible

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

— Emily Dickinson

“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer,…

— Rajneesh

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

— Willis Gaylord Clark

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of…

— Joseph Addison

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience…

— James Thurber

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

— Qiu Miaojin

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

— Virginia Woolf