“No one in the world has (ever) laughed,
the least bit without weeping at the same time.”

Page 25.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

Solitude
Poetry quotes
Source: Poems of Passion
Context: Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

"Paradox on Acting" (1830), as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker

Godric (1980)

Source: Ulysses

Source: Doctor Faustus

If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.
The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17