Sara Teasdale Quotes

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

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

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

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.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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