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Category: Joy and Sadness

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1. "Our pleasures are imagined, but our griefs are all real."

Anon.

Quotations about: Anger

2. "With all this darkness round me I feel less alone."

Samuel Beckett, "Krapp`s Last Tape"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

3. "A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Wit and Humor

4. "A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

5. "Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Quotations about: Various

6. "The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

Ellen Glasgow, "The Woman Within"

Quotations about: Peace and War

7. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

8. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

Anthony Burgess

9. "It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Letters of C. S. Lewis"

Quotations about: Happiness

10. "Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation Of Christ"

Quotations about: Happiness

11. "Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Pain and Tears

12. "Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Success and Fame

13. "I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Woman and Man

14. "I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

15. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Helen Keller

16. "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Quotations about: Life and Death

17. "We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."

Pierre Corneille, "The Cid"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

19. "In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."

John Burroughs

20. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

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21. "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

22. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

23. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Life and Death

24. "It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

25. "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

26. "In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

27. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Quotations about: Life and Death

28. "For every joy there is a price to be paid."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

29. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

Helen Keller

30. "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Trust

31. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

32. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

33. "The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish proverb

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

34. "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

William Makepeace Thackeray

35. "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

36. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

37. "Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

Sandra Bullock

Quotations about: Various

38. "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

Kin Hubbard

Quotations about: Various

39. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."

Erma Bombeck

Quotations about: Youth and Age

40. "If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give."

Anon.

41. "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart."

Anon.

42. "Worry is interest paid on a trouble before it is due."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge)

43. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

44. "A smile is a curve that sets things straight."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

45. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics

46. "A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings."

Anon.

Quotations about: Happiness

47. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

48. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot."

Walter Bagehot

Quotations about: Success and Fame

49. "You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile."

Martin Charnin

50. "Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss."

Eliane Kirchner

Quotations about: Happiness

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