God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

“Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness.”

— Penn Jillette

“She is an immense presence in the world. Tragedy and strength have so perfectly coalesced in her, as if one fed off the other.…

— Barbara Bode

Joy and sadness come by turns.

— Walker Percy

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference…

— Luther Vandross

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity…

— Erich Fromm

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel…

— Kristin Hannah

I am not carefree. I'm just not. I experience an immense amount of joy, a crazy amount of joy through sadness and so much…

— Kelela

No more joy, No more sadness, No emotion, Only madness, I can't see, I don't feel, I can't touch, I cant seem heal...

— Ana Chable

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house;…

— Clifford D. Simak

I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly,…

— Greta Gerwig

When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between…

— Johan Huizinga

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

— Okakura Kakuzo

“In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

The one who loves you will make you weep in joy not in sadness.

— Anonymous

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

— Maud Hart Lovelace