Quote by James Baldwin

“If there is a reason to be sorrowful, then there is a reason to be happy. You have only one lifetime, don't live your…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity & rareness of such a fiery bliss without…

— Fisher Amelie

“As I see it, people who experience equal amounts of sadness and happiness in their lives must be incredibly blessed. Some people lead a…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

“Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in shadows -…

— Clarice Lispector

“I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." -”

— Martha Washington

“...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.”

— Sophocles

“To know misery is to know its opposite, happiness. One cannot exist without the other.”

— Jodi Aman

“I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking…

— Anna Godbersen

“There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness…

— Charlotte Brontë