Joy Quote by Rohinton Mistry

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

— Rohinton Mistry

“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much the recollection…

— Simon Wroe

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many people make their lives miserable simply because they forget their fortunes and blessings; but tenaciously remember all the unfortunate things happened to them…

— T Joseph Benziger

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

— Ann Brashares

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

— Anonymous

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed…

— Bernhard Schlink

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

— Robert R. Blake

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

— Anonymous

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

— Robert Breault

“But the memory of past sorrow--is it not present joy?”

— Edgar Allan Poe