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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Joy and SorrowIn context
- Emotion
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Life & Death
A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part I, Chapter VIIIn context
- Intelligence
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part One, Chapter 1In context
- Family
It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Five, Chapter 8In context
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context
- Nature
I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene III, spoken by Sir TobyIn context
- Life & Death
There are no faces truer than those that are so washed; how much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LeonatoIn context
- Emotion
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Talking
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by BeatriceIn context
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by FriarIn context
- Experience
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by RosalindIn context
Felicity is a continuall progresse of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former, being still but the way to the later.
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679Leviathan (1651), Part I: Of Man, Chapter XIIn context
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow-falls in the river,
A moment white⁠—then melts for ever
Robert Burns1759–1796Tam o’ Shanter (1791)In context