“In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.”— Kevin Hart, amazon.com
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“I am slowly learning how to laugh and cry and feel through it all, how to welcome the confusion and the joy that comes with loving, and living, and breaking.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Men want a partner who can laugh at herself and who has courage and strength.”— Rinatta Paries, powertochange.com
“My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.”— Mahogany SilverRain, amazon.com
“Laugh at your flaws and people won’t be able to laugh at you, only with you.”— Corinda Lubin-Katz, thoughtcatalog.com
“I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.”— Melody Carlson, amazon.com
“Excessive smiles and laughter, especially if out of character, are another dead giveway; but equally so long, smoldering silences.”— David Cullen, lovepanky.com
“You can’t have the bubbles and sparkles without the intense depths from which they surface. You can’t have the light and laughter without the darkness and the tears. You can’t have the in-love-with-life-ness without the parts of me that question the point of any of it, the parts that don’t belong an…”— Stephenie Zamora, thoughtcatalog.com
“[THIS POST PAID FOR BY BIRDS] We aren't chirping you fools we're laughing because you all can't fly.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Crying turns to laughing and laughing to crying - if the storm is intense enough, all the fuses in the house blow.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“My heart caught in my throat / in the shape of your laugh.”— Shinji Moon, thewastedgeneration.tumblr.com