We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
-David Weatherford

However long the night, the dawn will break.
-African Proverb

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin

There are as many nights as days
, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Jung

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-Bill Blass

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-Frederick Douglass

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-Anonymous

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-Washington Irving

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
-Winston Churchill

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
-Anais Nin

Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome
-Jimi Hendrix

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-Jean de La Fontaine

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
-Christina Georgina Rossetti

Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
-Javan

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
-John Greenleaf Whittier

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
-Psalms

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care
, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
-William Blake

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
-Jim Rohn

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field,
than their own hearts in their
closet.
-Charles Caleb Colton

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.
-Carole Borges

Don't you want to join us?"
I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted.
"No, I don't," I said.
-Franz Kafka

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
-Helen Keller

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties;
no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-Albert Einstein

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
-Samuel Butler

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves.
It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation
of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.
-Eric Hoffer

Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat
-Henry Fosdick

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How sad to see a father with money and no joy.
The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
-Jim Rohn

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-Oscar Wilde

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
-Leonardo da Vinci

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
-Eric Hoffer

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
-R.W. Dale

In solitude, where we are least alone
-Lord Byron

Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.
-William Shakespeare

...then laugh, leaning back in my arms, for life is not a paragraph, and death I think is no parenthesis.
-e.e. cummings

Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow?
-Katherine Wolf

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-Dag Hammarskjold