Diners Quote by David Mamet

“Confronted with unhappiness, I will unmask it also by seeing through this false face to the true countenance of joy.”

— Ernest Holmes

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

— William Blake

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive…

— Khalil Gibran

“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.”

— P.D. James

“Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the…

— Pope Gregory I

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list…

— Christopher Dines

“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he was never…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit…

— Marcel Proust

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

— Jessamyn West

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob