Laughter And Grief Quotes

#1. Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Karl Shapiro

#2. A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Don Marquis

#3. It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.

Lauren Groff

#4. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matthew Fox

#5. I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Neil Jordan

#6. Their laughter hides their loss, their smiles hide their grief, their eyes hide a pain that will not be eased.

Intisar Khanani

#7. Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief, whether in laughter or indignation, beauty or terror ... Man needs the comfort of his own dignity ... And that's what the artisf is for. To give him that comfort.

Robert Nathan

#8. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

George R R Martin

#9. There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#10. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum

#11. When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

Sharon E. Rainey

#12. You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer."
"Did he show you slides?"
We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

Philip K. Dick

#13. I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

Klaus Kinski

#14. From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Hippocrates

#15. {T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

Alice Walker

#16. One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

#17. Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Henry Roth

#18. You the swimmer, after all. And then you see the waves without pattern, scooping up everyone, throwing them around like so many floating heads, and you can only laugh in your sobbing at all the silly head bobbers. Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief.

Lidia Yuknavitch