William Wordsworth Quotes

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.

It's almost as if the Swedes have two different personalities: one for winter and one for summer. I am both a happy and a melancholic person. It's complex as I get so much from life.

I've always been into super upbeat, cute, uplifting progressions, but at the same time, I'm also a very dark person. I really like both sides, and I feel like I'm always trying to find some middle ground with music or style or anything that I do.

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

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

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.