Mark Twain Quotes About Sorrow

• what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

  Mark Twain

  Loss, Winning, Appreciate

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

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Laughter, Sorrow

• It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

  Mark Twain

  Law, Heaven, Suffering

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.21, Univ of California Press

• Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

  Mark Twain

  School, Holiday, Fishing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

• The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Secret, Sorrow

• The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

  Mark Twain

  People, Joy, Sorrow

  Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, Lulu.com

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