Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“They come weeping and go weeping—you only come laughing and go laughing.”
- Source
- The Madman
- Date
- 1918
Meaning of “They come weeping and go weeping—you only come…”
The grave-digger’s observation uses dark humor to contrast conventional responses to death with a narrator who approaches the cemetery from another perspective.
Where does it come from?
The Madman, “The Grave-Digger”; the line is spoken by the grave-digger to the narrator.
