Crying Laughing Quotes

#1. Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

Tabitha Suzuma

#2. Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene ... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

Michael De Luca

#3. There are no promises. Look deeply at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, at all that lives and dies. What truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.

Amy Poehler

#4. And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

Cressida Cowell

#5. There's time for laughing and there's time for crying
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
- a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness

E. E. Cummings

#6. Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either

Virginia Woolf

#7. From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

Andrea Hirata

#8. Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

Luigina Sgarro

#9. You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.

Taraji P. Henson

#10. What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things? And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there, duh.

Cara Hoffman

#11. As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

E.B. White

#12. That night, the booze felt great, as the warmth of the wine in my stomach spread through my body. I didn't like feeling stupid or out of control, but I liked the way it made everything (laughing, crying, peeing in front of your friends) easier.

John Green

#13. Girls and boys, laughing and crying; for as they went home many of them found time to fight and make peace, to weep and play. I forgot my troubles in looking at them. And then, all those three years, I tried to understand why men should be for ever tormenting themselves.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

Cassandra King

#15. Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! ... Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again! ... Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

Gaston Leroux

#16. Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.

Jardine Libaire

#17. I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Courteney Cox

#18. If you're laughing,you are not crying,even though they look similar.And that works for me.

Therese J. Borchard

#19. A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

Ahmad Shamlou

#20. That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

Nick Hornby

#21. Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be so large, so persistent. The improbable simplicity. I groaned. Why don't we have a word for the utterance between laughing and crying?

Peter Heller

#22. What have you done to your eyes? They're all red. Have you been crying?' 'No,' he answers, laughing, 'but I've been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.

Knut Hamsun

#23. Crying is deeper than laughing.

Shesh Nath Vernwal

#24. Laughing and crying are closely related. Smiling and grimacing both involve a person showing their teeth as does laughing and growling. Crying and laughing always represents the expression of actual emotion.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. Laughing and crying are so intrinsically tied together, spun of the same material, that it's hard to tell one from the other sometimes.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#26. One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

James Caan

#27. The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

Mark Lowry

#28. It looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.

Em Bailey

#29. The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

Daryl Hall

#30. Two oceans away, a boy is falling in love.
Next door, another boy i just falling.
One is laughing, one is crying -
both are screaming.

Darshana Suresh

#31. To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

Sylvia Plath

#32. It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Lois Lowry

#33. The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.

Monica Potter

#34. Jesus has to be crying up there somewhere. Or laughing hysterically. I can't figure out which one.

Maya Banks

#35. I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

Jenny Hval

#36. Are you happy? It doesn't matter! Are you unhappy? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not! Are you laughing? It doesn't matter! Are you crying? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.

Susan Sarandon

#38. I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.

Amy Poehler

#39. Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Veronica Roth

#40. Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.

Jamie McGuire

#41. Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.

Susan Patron

#42. Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Joy Harjo

#43. She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep.

Elizabeth Brundage

#44. He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.

Kevin Brockmeier

#45. Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

Haruki Murakami

#46. When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

Zoe Kazan

#47. People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Sally Hawkins

#48. Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All those little doses of emotion.

Chuck Palahniuk

#49. There are those laughing their way to hell; and those, crying themselves to heaven.

Anthony Liccione

#50. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.

Amy Poehler

#51. Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is
laughter.

Moffat Machingura

#52. She explained crying to him. He said that it felt very good. In his opinion, it was almost the same as laughing. She said that many people believe it is the same.

Jesse Ball

#53. Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes

Amy Tintera

#54. I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#55. I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out.

Brie Larson

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

Francois Rabelais

#57. Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

Nikki Sixx

#58. There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

Tom Waits

#59. The human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.

Rohinton Mistry

#60. She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

Markus Zusak

#61. All we have is
the present. The present's perfect, young
grasshopper, because we're breathing,
moving, laughing, crying, and are
surprised when we finally meet someone
we connect with. Stop living in the past
and wasting your present. You need to
tell Noah how you feel.

Alison G. Bailey

#62. At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.

Julie Metz

#63. If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Sid Caesar

#64. The face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Rohinton Mistry

#65. Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror ...

Annie Proulx

#66. Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too

Dave Barry

#67. Some men say get them crying on your shoulder and you have the sheets half-unfurled already. Other fellows say get them laughing. I say get them drunk. I ordered up more Riesling ...

Stewart Hennessey

#68. During her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying.

Laura Esquivel

#69. There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

Samantha Barks

#70. One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

Grete Waitz

#71. We will spend this long afternoon crying and laughing at the same time, so that i can no longer tell which one is the truest form of grief.

Bridget Asher

#72. When the day comes, I'll get up at his funeral and break a giant stick. Then I'll head to a bar and spend the rest of the night drinking, laughing, crying... and waiting to die. Somebody bring a stick. - Amanda Palmer New York City June 26th, 2012

C. Anthony Martignetti

#73. Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

Tamsin Greig

#74. God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

Elie Faure

#75. For years, I'd never understood what it meant when people said they felt like laughing and crying at the same time, until now. (...) I was waking up every morning - reaching for her, rolling over in bed at night to pull her closer, but she was never there.

Whitney G.

#76. But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Ransom Riggs

#77. I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

George Washington

#78. We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

Coco Chanel

#79. I am sitting here, staring at the dark sky and drunk with memories. laughing like a maniac while crying an ocean. Somewhere it feels like somebody is kissing my lips passionately. While they are continuously pushing a knife, deep into my chest.

Akshay Vasu

#80. I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.

Brian Andreas

#81. But you can't feel bad every second[ ... ] Laughing doesn't make bad thing worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human. But i didn't know how to say this, either.

Ransom Riggs

#82. The crying that is done in this world is due to wrong understanding and the laughing is also due to wrong understanding. This world is not worth the crying or laughing. This world is beautiful [which one needs to know and see].

Dada Bhagwan

#83. The present's perfect, young grasshopper, because we're breathing, moving, laughing, crying, and are surprised when we finally meet someone we connect with. Stop living in the past and wasting your present.

Alison G. Bailey

#84. Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

Amy Poehler

#85. Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

Joni Mitchell

#86. Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or some fond memory. We're human beings so we understand that laughter and crying aren't always disparate emotions.

Harold Ramis

#87. Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

Gautama Buddha

#88. It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

Eleanor Farjeon

#89. If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

Moffat Machingura

#90. Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#91. I remember sitting in the theater watching 'Bridesmaids,' and I'm doubled over laughing, and then I'm crying in the same movie. It's the overwhelming feeling, as I'm looking up and seeing these women, and I'm realizing how rare it is to see that.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#92. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Stijn Streuvels

#93. Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

Milan Kundera

#94. Sometimes when I have the feeling like I'm almost crying, it can turn into an almost-laughing feeling.

R.J. Palacio

#95. Love is messy. It means arguing and making up and laughing and crying and struggling and sometimes it doesn't seem worth it. But it is. And at the end when you're in love, no matter what happens, you forgive each other.

Anon

#96. It was as if I had lost a layer of skin - I woke up laughing, or crying.

Jojo Moyes

#97. I don't know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children's happiness. Group crying, he could stand, but group laughing was asking for it, especially at the dinner table.

David Sedaris

#98. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.

Ransom Riggs

#99. When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

Lily Tomlin

#100. When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Freddie Highmore