The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.