Cameron Dokey Quotes

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

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.

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

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.

I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.

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

I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.