Excess Quote by William Blake Download Open image “Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.” — William Blake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excess Grief Joy Laughter
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. — Bible Copy Share Image
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were so many times that the sorrow and agony of a particular moment was punctuated by something intensely wonderful and beautiful. Laughter was… — Laura Sobiech Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
