Laughter, tears, pain and death. 
"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone"
(that is so, true.)
Slight variations:
"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you blow your nose"
(also true, but less meaningful than the first)
"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry ,and the whole world laughs at you"
(also true, sadly, so)
"If the world learned to laugh more, it would have less time to kill." |
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts. "
Charles Dickens
"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. "
C.S. Robinson
"And weep the more, because I weep in vain. "
Thomas Gray
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. "
Lord Byron
"Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."
William Faulkener
"Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this."
Thomas Holcraft
"Call no man happy till he is dead. "
Aeschylus
"Pain is no longer pain when it is past. "
Margaret J Preston
