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
