#tears

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#joy #laughter #much #smile #tears

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#sorrow #tears #water #death

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#completely #correct #death #honestly #inappropriate

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#cry #hasn #human #human being #laughs

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ↗

— Robert Frost

#surprise #tears #writer

Pearls mean tears. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#pearls #tears

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ↗

— Bette Midler

#balance #few #fringes #heavy #human

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#bursting #felt #flew #flying #good

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #i think #love #pay #tears