“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”
Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”
Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
Source: Beauty Queens
Source: Firefly Lane
“So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry”
Source: Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”
Source: Hunger
That's when it's really sad.
Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast (December 2005)
On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"
“Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.”
“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”
Letter to James E. Yeatman of St. Louis, Vice-President of the Western Sanitary Commission (21 May 1865). As quoted on p. 358, and footnoted on p. 562, in Sherman: A Soldier's Passion For Order https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/080938762X (2007), John F. Marszalek, Southern Illinois University Press, Chapter 15 ('Fame Tarnished')
Variant text: I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers […] it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. […] I declare before God, as a man and a soldier, I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed and submissive before me, but would rather say—‘Go, and sin no more.’
As quoted in Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1455611891 (1992), Charles Edmund Vetter, Pelican Publishing, p. 289
See the Discussion Page for more extensive sourcing information.
1860s, 1865, Letter to James E. Yeatman (May 1865)
Context: I confess without shame that I am tired & sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even success, the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies […] It is only those who have not heard a shot, nor heard the shrills & groans of the wounded & lacerated (friend or foe) that cry aloud for more blood & more vengeance, more desolation & so help me God as a man & soldier I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed & submissive before me but will say ‘Go sin no more.
“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend
“You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.”
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)”
Variant: It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Source: Fight Club
Variant: The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
Source: A Fine Balance
“3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13
Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction
“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”
Source: The Vampire Lestat
Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea
“Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.”
Source: Love Story
“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
Source: The Time Keeper
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Source: The Wedding
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”
Source: One Hundred Names
Source: My Point... And I Do Have One
Source: Demon Lord of Karanda