Haruki Murakami Quotes

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Laughing and crying are really similar - what happens to your body. It's a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

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

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

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

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

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

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Music makes me cry.

Laughter is the language of the heart

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

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.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.