The Bridge Between Joy and Sorrow…

I demolish my bridges behind me
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. ~ Indian Proverb

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. ~ Herman Melville

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~ Eudora Welty

The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow. ~ Dutch Proverb

Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sorrow is the child of too much joy. ~ Chinese Proverb

Sorrow doesn’t kill — reckless joy does. ~ West African Proverb

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~ Swedish Proverb

One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows. ~ Japanese Proverb

One does not live on joy or die of sorrow. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the Christ risen. ~ Mother Teresa

Joy may be a miser, but Sorrow’s purse is free. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That’s how well they go together. ~ Neil Gaiman

If it weren’t for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas. ~ Lithuanian Proverb

How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow. ~ Tunisian Proverb

Happiness has its roots — sorrow has its womb. ~ Chinese Proverb

A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. ~ Alfred Tennyson

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverb

A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy. ~ Swedish Proverb

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