Shared Sorrow

“I can be perfectly happy by myself. But if after I am free a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. He who can look at the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realize something of the wonder of both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to God’s secret as any one can get.”

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis