“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“For sorrow is our joy,
And joy our greatest sorrow.
Elissa dies tonight,
And Carthage flames tomorrow.”
Dido and Aeneas (opera; music by Henry Purcell)
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And joy our greatest sorrow.
Elissa dies tonight,
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Anglo-Irish poet and playwright 1652–1715Related quotes
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Source: Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency (13 October 2011) http://naenara.com.kp/en/news/news_view.php?22+1477
“Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity.”
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
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.
Amin Maalouf (1949) Francophone Lebanese writer based in France
Source: The First Century After Beatrice
“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.”
Robert Pollok book The Course of Time
Book i, line 464.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“But love for an object eternal and infinite feeds the mind with joy alone, and a joy which is free from all sorrow. This is something greatly to be desired and to be sought with all our strength.”
Sed amor erga rem aeternam et infinitam sola laetitia pascit animum, ipsaque omnis tristitiae est expers; quod valde est desiderandum totisque viribus quaerendum.
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
I, 10; translation by W. Hale White (Revised by Amelia Hutchison Stirling)
On the Improvement of the Understanding (1662)
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist