laughter
Laughter is heard farther than weeping.
1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 13.
We are in many many troubles for the moment, so many that grief loses its dignity and bursts out laughing.
July 9, 1931 letter to Louis Untermeyer from North Bennington, Vermont, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 209.