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“Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.”

Joy Laughing Tears Expression Sorrow Horror Laughter Terror Extremes Anguish Merriment Tears Of Joy Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Way Firsts Persons Joy Fun Laughing Tears Expression Idleness Old Ways

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.”

Humans Character Tears Expression Achievement Highest Laughter Inseparable Pathos

Book:Lanterns & Lances

Source: Lanterns & Lances

“Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.”

Seems Tears Expression Hatred

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.”

Feels Writing Persons Real Soul Light Song Turns Laughing Tears Expression Your Soul Feathers Make You Laugh

Author:Scott Avett

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”