<P> Ella Wheeler Wilcox ( November 5 , 1850 -- October 30 , 1919 ) was an American author and poet . Her best - known work was Poems of Passion . Her most enduring work was `` Solitude '' , which contains the lines `` Laugh , and the world laughs with you ; weep , and you weep alone '' . Her autobiography , The Worlds and I , was published in 1918 , a year before her death . </P>
<P> Ella Wheeler Wilcox ( November 5 , 1850 -- October 30 , 1919 ) was an American author and poet . Her best - known work was Poems of Passion . Her most enduring work was `` Solitude '' , which contains the lines `` Laugh , and the world laughs with you ; weep , and you weep alone '' . Her autobiography , The Worlds and I , was published in 1918 , a year before her death . </P>
who said laugh and the world laughs with you
who said laugh and the world laughs with you
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox