“Laughter is higher than all pain.”

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American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“From Pamplona, I'm the loon
scared of the laughter of the cunning Moon,
under the crepe of world-pain that won't pass…
For – o terror! – all is under a jar of glass.”

Tristan Corbière (1845–1875) French poet

Je suis le fou de Pampelune,<br>J'ai peur du rire de la Lune,<br>Cafarde, avec son crêpe noir...<br>Horreur ! tout est donc sous un éteignoir. <br class="br"> Heures, http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Heures second stanza, from Les Amours jaunes (1873).

“To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“Pain and penitence forsaking,
Hearts like cloisters dim and grey,
By your laughter lured, awaking
Join with you the dance of day.”

George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter

By Still Waters (1906)

“Sometimes tears make more good than laughter.”

Pedro Muñoz Seca (1879–1936) Spanish writer

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

“To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter.”

Milarepa (1052–1135) Tibetan yogi

As quoted in The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (1977) by Tsangnyön Heruka, as translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, p. 12
Context: In my youth I committed black deeds. In maturity I practised innocence. Now, released from both good and evil, I have destroyed the root of karmic action and shall have no reason for action in the future. To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter. What good would it do to tell you? I am an old man. Leave me in peace.

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν
ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850):
"Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better
Than thus to drag sick life."
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 750–751

“Laughter is higher than all pain.”

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