Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, lo...
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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, th...
Happiness has its roots -- sorrow has its womb.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
A man without a child is a king without sorrows.
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow.
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows.
The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.
One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows.
Sorrow doesn't kill -- reckless joy does.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for...
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all gr...
Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
...the distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
