Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.