Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

Too much happiness always overflows into tears of sorrow.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

So blended and intertwisted in this life are occasions of laughter and of tears,

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom.

laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.