“Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.”
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
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Jerome K. Jerome 87
English humorist 1859–1927Related quotes
“I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror”
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
"The Case for Comedy", Lanterns & Lances http://books.google.com/books?id=m0RZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22humor+and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage (1961); previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly November 1960 http://books.google.com/books?id=6q8GAQAAIAAJ&q=%22and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage
From Lanterns and Lances
"Palm Sunday", a sermon delivered at St. Clement's Church, New York City (ndg), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You" (ndg)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian