Heartless Quote by James Thurber

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Francis Aveling

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living…

— Margaret Mead

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

— William Blake

“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

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

— Francois Rabelais

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

— Federico Fellini

“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Bible

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge