All Quotes By Tag: Sorrow

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”

“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”

“Both joy and sorrow serve as gauges for love: our love for others, and their love for us.”

“Breathe deep… The rain falls but a moment, and in a moment, gives life to another day.”

“We have come to see pain as the antithesis of happiness. Yet without the experience of pain we would not appreciate the experience of happiness.”

“Happiness lies in the physical life; sorrow in thought.”

“Pain and sorrow make up a person’s character, not just the happiness and laughter.”

“Who’s happy here? It’s all sham and fakery,” Nimmo said laconically, not bothering to look up from the magazine. “No one’s happy here. It’s not possible. Arre yaar, think about it, what are the things you normal people get unhappy about? I don’t mean you, but grown-ups like you–what makes them unhappy? Price-rise, children’s school admissions, husbands’ beatings, wives’ cheatings, Hindu-Muslim riots, Indo-Pak war–outside things that settle down eventually. But for us the price-rise and school-admissions and beating-husbands and cheating-wives are all inside us. The riot is inside us. The war is inside us. Indo-Pak is inside us. It will never settle down. It can’t.”

“Key to happiness I do not know what other people say,But what I know is that my key to happiness lies beneath my dark secrets and my deep sorrows. And I don’t have what it takes to get that key.”

“There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing—to laugh without reason, to have joy in one’s heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being….”

“One may drown in sorrows but wears a mask of happiness because the world is not ready to shower Love.”

“Happiness lies in the active life, sorrow in thought.”

“Happiness lies in the physical life, sorrow in thought.”

“İnsana üzərində xoşbəxt yaşamaq üçün bir qədər torpaq lazımdır, həmişəlik rahat olmaq üçün isə daha az torpaq gərək olur.”