On porte encore moins facilement la joie excessive que la peine la plus lourde.
Part II, ch. L
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
On porte encore moins facilement la joie excessive que la peine la plus lourde.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
“Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity.”
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
Context: In our culture, we think that happy and color is trivial, that black and darkness is deeper. But Nietzsche said — which is a line that I firmly believe — "Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity." And if you see Grendel, you'll see, as he's on the edge of the abyss, ready to leap to his death, he sings, "Is it joy I feel? Is it joy I feel?" And it's so, so moving. You can have a lot of different explanations for the ending of that opera, but there is something so palpable that you will feel when he sings those lines.
“…the joy of winning the World Cup cannot be compared with any amount of money”
Kapil Dev: 30 years on, I can still recall India World Cup victory
“Nothing is harder for Satan to bear than a person who recites the Qur’an by looking at the pages”
of the Qur’an
Thawabul A’mal, Page 231
Shi'ite Hadith
“There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q=%22The+mother+of+excess+is+not+joy+but+joylessness%22&pg=PA230#v=onepage
Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.
http://books.google.com/books?id=bzUAAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Die+mutter+der+Ausschweifung+ist+nicht+die+Freude+sondern+die+Freudlosigkeit%22&pg=RA1-PA48#v=onepage
II.77
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Dido and Aeneas (opera; music by Henry Purcell)
