Ray Bradbury Quotes

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.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

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

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

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

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

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

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

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.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.