„Sometimes tears make more good than laughter.“

„The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.“

—  Khalil Gibran Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883 - 1931

A Handful of Sand on the Shore

„Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, libro Shantaram

Fuente: Shantaram

„Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.“

—  Jerome K. Jerome, libro Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

„Laughter between two is sometimes a closer act of love than any other.“

—  Oswald Wynd, libro The Ginger Tree

Fuente: The Ginger Tree

„There is nothing more precious than laughter“

—  Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954

Fuente: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

„Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.“

—  Samuel Beckett, libro Molloy

Molloy (1951)

„Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity… When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.“

—  Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966

Fuente: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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

—  James Thurber American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894 - 1961

"The Case for Comedy", Lanterns & Lances http://books.google.com/books?id=m0RZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22humor+and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage (1961); previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly November 1960 http://books.google.com/books?id=6q8GAQAAIAAJ&q=%22and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage
From Lanterns and Lances‎

„I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror“

—  Charlie Chaplin British comic actor and filmmaker 1889 - 1977

„What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

„The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.“

—  Mason Cooley American academic 1927 - 2002

City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)

„To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter.“

—  Milarepa Tibetan yogi 1052 - 1135

As quoted in The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (1977) by Tsangnyön Heruka, as translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, p. 12
Contexto: In my youth I committed black deeds. In maturity I practised innocence. Now, released from both good and evil, I have destroyed the root of karmic action and shall have no reason for action in the future. To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter. What good would it do to tell you? I am an old man. Leave me in peace.

„Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore.“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, libro Palm Sunday

"Palm Sunday", a sermon delivered at St. Clement's Church, New York City (ndg), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You" (ndg)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Contexto: Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

„Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

Fuente: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

„More tearful than crying is seeing someone cry.“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
Voces (1943)

„Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.“

—  Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

„When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.“

—  Sherman Alexie, libro The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Fuente: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

„April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!“

—  William Watson (poet) English poet, born 1858 1858 - 1935

April http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22188 (1897).

„Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.“

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)