“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”
A Handful of Sand on the Shore
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Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931Related quotes
“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”
Variant: The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.
"The God Called Poetry"
Country Sentiment (1920)
New York Times Magazine (7 December 1958).
Letters and interviews
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564)
Context: Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.