“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

“For there is a certain luxury in grief; especially when we pour out our sorrows in the bosom of a friend, who will approve, or, at least, pardon our tears.”
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“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

“I am convinced that comics should not only make people laugh. For this in my stories found tears, anger, hatred, pain and end not always happy.”

“Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.”

“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”

“...there is no accessible luxury. There is no aspirational luxury. It’s either luxury or not luxury.”

“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.”

“No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.”