Behinds Quote by Thomas Gray

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

— Laozi

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with…

— Louis Bromfield

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or…

— Ding Ling

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

— Markus Zusak

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look…

— Oliver Goldsmith

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

— William Falconer

Happiness is like a light that shines from within. It casts a beautiful glow on those who stand near and beckons softly to those…

— Anonymous

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

— Laozi