Sorrow And Happiness Quotes

When you are sorrowful, look again.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic – if it is pulled out I shall die.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.