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

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

“The laughter knows the depth of his own sorrows but never tears.”

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“I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.”

Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan

“It may be we shall know in the hereafter
Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears,
And why the world's too beautiful for laughter,
Too gross for tears.”

Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916) English journalist

“Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus

“When he comes around. Do not tell him nothing. Do not make a sound. Cos if he knows we're there he might tear his heart out. And beat us to death with it.”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

“Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

Jane Hirshfield (1953) Poet