Quotes & Sayings About Laughing Instead Of Crying

Patricia felt as though she had been run over by a melting ice cream truck that had recently burst into flames. — T.W. Brown

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature. — Cristina Henriquez

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies. — Mary Roach

As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It does not matter if you are asking for health, for happiness, for financial wealth, or for all three. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how this will come to you. Neither does it matter if you have no reason to expect it to. — Stephen Richards

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things ... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. — Constantin Brancusi

To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love. — Gregory Orr

Two very scared white mice, holding hands. — Neil Gaiman

And begin a life in which she alone determined the margins. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her. — Henry David Thoreau

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. — Steve Maraboli

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings. — Simone De Beauvoir

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus