Original artwork, not a still
Waiting for Godot ‧ 1952
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Here the speaker treats sorrow and laughter like fixed quantities, a kind of cosmic accounting. Whenever one person starts crying, someone else somewhere stops, so the total never changes. Then it adds that laughter works the same way, which is a bleakly funny, balanced view of the world.
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