Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still.
Lord ByronSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleMake the most of your regrets, never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar WildeYou cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.
ConfuciusInflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.
BuddhaWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow, that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranJust as hope rings through laughter it can also shine through tears.
Maya AngelouThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic, because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouLife is suffering.
BuddhaWe should feel sorrow but not sink under its oppression.
ConfuciusThere is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
Jane AustenThe secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow, there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainHe that raises a large family does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow, but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin FranklinI seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times, but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen KellerTears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da VinciWe have seen better days.
William ShakespeareThe flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath TagoreWhether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Rabindranath TagoreIt is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother TeresaThe deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil GibranLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark TwainDespair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Herman HesseI do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Herman HesseMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleIf future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da VinciWhat is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
BuddhaIf a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.
ConfuciusAnd in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Stephen KingDesire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress.
Sai BabaThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George EliotNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
BuddhaOnly by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungAn onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will RogersMom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.
Kurt CobainAbsolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas FullerI hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William ShakespeareIf you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William ShakespeareIt is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude SteinI wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareDon't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings sadness and drama. With just this one agreement you can completely transform your life.
Miguel Angel RuizA tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.
AristotleI had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William ShakespeareThey gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Jane AustenThe most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.
Helen KellerWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William ShakespeareIn his company I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.
Jane AustenWe're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis MorissetteNine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin FranklinIf my world were to cave in tomorrow I would look back on all the pleasures excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness not my miscarriages or my father leaving home but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey HepburnThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
AristotleCome away O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler YeatsBut whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him, except that he has bred sorrows for himself and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles