Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

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

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

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.