Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked…

— Rumi

“Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.”

— Sandra Harner

“That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.”

— Terry Pratchett

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear. If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.”

— Anonymous

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The family is where most of our joy comes from.

— Aidan Quinn

Joy comes when you find yourself in God.

— Pastor Cedric Richardson

There is always a sweet joy that comes to Us after Sorrow

— Melchor Lim

“So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.”

— Jeremy Holmes

“Grief never goes away. It just changes. At first it's like molten-hot lava dripping from your heart and hollowing you from the inside. Over…

— Tyrell Johnson

“..grief never goes away. And that's no bad thing - it's only the other side of love, after all.”

— Carys Bray

“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it…

— Philip K. Dick

Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it…

— Anonymous