"A laugh is the loud echo of a……" — Sean O'Casey

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the… - Sean O'Casey

"A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh."

— Sean O'Casey

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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire;…
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary,…
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of…
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from…
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into…
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner…
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold,…

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More Echo Quotes

This quote is filed under Echo Quotes, one of 355 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
There is no love that is not an echo. — Theodor Adorno
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto von Bismarck
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an… — Thomas Carlyle
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the… — Eric Clapton
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting… — William Shakespeare
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get.… — Zig Ziglar
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. — Alexander Pope
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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