Behinds Quote by Oscar Wilde

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears…

— Oscar Wilde

Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and…

— Henri Nouwen

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

— Mason Cooley

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the…

— Pierre Charron

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

— William Blake

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else…

— Kahlil Gibran

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

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It…

— Anonymous

“Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain…

— Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

— Anonymous