Joy and Sorrow Quotes

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Bible - Psalms 30:5

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - same well from which your laughter rises was often - times filled with your tears.

Kahlil Gibran

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, the heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell

Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley