Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

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.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

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

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I can't put into words what I think about anything.

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

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

Only humans can cry tears.

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.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

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

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

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

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

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

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.