“No one in the world has (ever) laughed,
the least bit without weeping at the same time.”
A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody: Couplet no. 297, p. 299
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Source: Poems of Passion
Context: Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
"Paradox on Acting" (1830), as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.”
Jürgen Moltmann (1926) German Reformed theologian
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes.”
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) British writer, lecturer and philosopher
If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.
The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17