
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean de La Bruyère, in Du Coeur
Misattributed
Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.
Aphorism 63; Variant translation: We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean de La Bruyère, in Du Coeur
Misattributed
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”
Variant: I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
“In life we will smile, laugh, cry, bleed, die and finally laugh again.”
“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (June 1995), p. 3
“We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest”
As quoted in "Roberto Clementeː Pounder from Puerto Rico" by John Devaney, in Baseball Stars of 1964 (1964), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 149
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1964</big>
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
Source: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs