Top 100 Sorrow Joy Quotes

#1. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

Sorrow Joy Quotes #232
#2. I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

Soheir Khashoggi

Sorrow Joy Quotes #4400
#3. We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed perhaps more.

Pearl S. Buck

Sorrow Joy Quotes #6935
#4. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sorrow Joy Quotes #13156
#5. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

Thomas Campion

Sorrow Joy Quotes #18064
#6. Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

Nicky Gumbel

Sorrow Joy Quotes #22059
#7. The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Sorrow Joy Quotes #34653
#8. The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Mark Twain

Sorrow Joy Quotes #35049
#9. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

Philip Gulley

Sorrow Joy Quotes #35190
#10. As surely as the dark gives meaning to the dawn, so does pain give meaning to pleasure, and sorrow to joy. All that we love, all that we strive for, all that we relish, we know only by contrast.

Terryl Givens

Sorrow Joy Quotes #43374
#11. Music ... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sorrow Joy Quotes #48090
#12. Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

Sara Teasdale

Sorrow Joy Quotes #55272
#13. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

Alexandra Ripley

Sorrow Joy Quotes #58078
#14. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

William Shakespeare

Sorrow Joy Quotes #61733
#15. It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

Plautus

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#16. Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sorrow Joy Quotes #73221
#17. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

Corrine Jackson

Sorrow Joy Quotes #76266
#18. The hopes that, in my own heart sown,
And cherished by such sun and rain,
As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,
Have ripened to a harvest there:

Charlotte Bronte

Sorrow Joy Quotes #78229
#19. Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Sorrow Joy Quotes #88704
#20. A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

Pythagoras

Sorrow Joy Quotes #94734
#21. Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

Christoph Wolff

Sorrow Joy Quotes #99423
#22. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.

John J. Stephens

Sorrow Joy Quotes #100523
#23. At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

Cate Tiernan

Sorrow Joy Quotes #102734
#24. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

E. M. Forster

Sorrow Joy Quotes #108019
#25. I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Sara Teasdale

Sorrow Joy Quotes #108485
#26. We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

John Calvin

Sorrow Joy Quotes #113124
#27. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

Sorrow Joy Quotes #114911
#28. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

Daisaku Ikeda

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#29. Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Joseph Joubert

Sorrow Joy Quotes #120919
#30. In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

George MacDonald

Sorrow Joy Quotes #149898
#31. For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Sorrow Joy Quotes #150464
#32. joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate.

Adrienne Von Speyr

Sorrow Joy Quotes #152022
#33. Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sorrow Joy Quotes #156152
#34. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy

Ella Joy Olsen

Sorrow Joy Quotes #158073
#35. Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Max Heindel

Sorrow Joy Quotes #166937
#36. We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Sorrow Joy Quotes #170986
#37. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrow Joy Quotes #172763
#38. Good and evil, joy and sorrow. All things strive for balance. And that means good and bad things end.

Amber Argyle

Sorrow Joy Quotes #173515
#39. To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Rollo May

Sorrow Joy Quotes #185701
#40. Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrow Joy Quotes #189304
#41. Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore De Balzac

Sorrow Joy Quotes #195512
#42. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Obafemi Awolowo

Sorrow Joy Quotes #198271
#43. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy
save one, and I thank you for that, too.

Peter S. Beagle

Sorrow Joy Quotes #198525
#44. The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Sorrow Joy Quotes #199895
#45. The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Andre Dubus III

Sorrow Joy Quotes #202718
#46. If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sorrow Joy Quotes #202994
#47. Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

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#48. We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

J.R. Miller

Sorrow Joy Quotes #206301
#49. Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.

Soseki Natsume

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#50. Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy and holiness shall be upon their heads; and they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Sorrow Joy Quotes #210914
#51. We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Sorrow Joy Quotes #220463
#52. When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

Auliq Ice

Sorrow Joy Quotes #221886
#53. The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

Emma Goldman

Sorrow Joy Quotes #225557
#54. There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Cate Tiernan

Sorrow Joy Quotes #225640
#55. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

Sorrow Joy Quotes #225650
#56. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Sri Aurobindo

Sorrow Joy Quotes #225765
#57. Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

James Baldwin

Sorrow Joy Quotes #227670
#58. To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..

Agatha Christie

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#59. Therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!

Billy Graham

Sorrow Joy Quotes #240163
#60. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

John Lennon

Sorrow Joy Quotes #246128
#61. God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sorrow Joy Quotes #255133
#62. Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

Isidore Of Seville

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#63. Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

John Vianney

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#64. Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sorrow Joy Quotes #267206
#65. A solemn state of mind is never crude or simple - it seems to contain a certain measure of its own opposite in solution. A solemn joy preserves a sort of bitter in its sweetness; a solemn sorrow is one to which we intimately consent.

William James

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#66. How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?"
"You can't," Feather answered. "You feel the loss forever. But you put it in a corner of yourself, and bit by bit some of your sorrow changes into joy. And that's how you go on living.

Sonya Hartnett

Sorrow Joy Quotes #272690
#67. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Leo Tolstoy

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#68. For there to be light, there must be darkness. For there to be joy, there must be sorrow. For there to be beauty, there must be the grotesque.

Penelope King

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#69. Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

John Lennon

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#70. Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

JoAnn Ross

Sorrow Joy Quotes #284400
#71. Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
When young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,
In thy place
ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled
To-day!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#72. It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

Mizu Sahara

Sorrow Joy Quotes #286417
#73. All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Honore De Balzac

Sorrow Joy Quotes #292140
#74. But the memory of past sorrow
is it not present joy?

Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrow Joy Quotes #294083
#75. Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate!

Raimbaut De Vaqueyras

Sorrow Joy Quotes #294549
#76. I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things ... In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#77. Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#78. Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Friedrich Schiller

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#79. Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven ... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

John Calvin

Sorrow Joy Quotes #313204
#80. Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Mason Cooley

Sorrow Joy Quotes #316523
#81. This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Marilynne Robinson

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#82. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Euripides

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#83. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Molly Friedenfeld

Sorrow Joy Quotes #333184
#84. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Rumi

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#85. There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey

Sorrow Joy Quotes #343013
#86. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

B.C. Forbes

Sorrow Joy Quotes #352613
#87. Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

Roger Scruton

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#88. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

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#89. The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Joseph Conrad

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#90. I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dolly Parton

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#91. Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.

Henri Barbusse

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#92. People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

Helen Fisher

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#93. Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#94. God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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#95. When the world was young, the gods and goddesses birthed the angels, Joy and Greed, Beauty and Empathy and Sorrow, Fear and Fury, sparks of humanity. To feel emotion, therefore, to be human,
is to be a child of the gods.

Marie Lu

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#96. The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Virginia Woolf

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#97. Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde

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#98. Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Friedrich Schiller

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#99. Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things
'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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#100. He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.

Kyung-Sook Shin

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