Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow? — Andrei Platonov

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. — William Shakespeare
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. — Samuel Butler
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head. — Andrei Platonov
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. — Andrei Platonov
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov