Mark Twain Joy Quotations

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

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to

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

Comparison is the death of joy.

Let your joy be unconfined!

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.