Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

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

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

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

Most of life is sad.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

The latter end of joy is woe.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

I lived and languished.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

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.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.