Janet Fitch Quotes

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.