Fran Drescher Quotes

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad - I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it's totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it's totally okay just to be sad, it's totally okay to be happy.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Joy lives concealed in grief.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.