Carl Jung Quotes

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

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Life at best is bittersweet.

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

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.