Anguish Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

— Anonymous

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

— William Blake

The only real laughter comes from despair.

— Groucho Marx

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

— Del Close

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Laughter of a person doesn't mean that they have an absence of problems and sorrow. But it means that the person has the ability…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder…

— Alice Walker

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping.

— Ibn Sirin

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

— Yogi Berra

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

— Alice Walker

Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like…

— Ted Loder