Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.