
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.”
“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
Act V, sc. viii
The Inspector General (1836)
Solitude
Poetry quotes
Source: Poems of Passion
Context: Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
“The world laughs at another man's pain.”
"Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.