Body Quote by Mary Oliver

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next…

— Robert Aris Willmott

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his…

— Kahlil Gibran

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

— Neil Gaiman

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply…

— Cassandra Clare

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from…

— Euripides

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each…

— Franz Schubert

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my…

— Chris Cleave

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of…

— Georges Duhamel

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

— James Russell Lowell

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll…

— Annie Lennox

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

— Oprah Winfrey