Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
~ Bible

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~ William Blake

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
~ William Blake

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
~ William Blake

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.
~ Lord Byron

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~ Confucius

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
~ William Cowper

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
~ Emily Dickinson

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
~ Emile Durkheim

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow makes us children again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.
~ C. Fitzhugh

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
~ C. Fitzhugh

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~ Washington Irving