Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

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

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

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

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

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

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone