
“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: Robinson Crusoe
“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
“True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.”
Part Five “Revels”, Chapter i “Cal, Among Miracles” (p. 199)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.”
Easter Day II, l. 34-35.
“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
“Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. p. 166
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)