Amy Grant Quotes

Life at best is bittersweet.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

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

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

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

No one is happy all his life long.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness or happiness - it's both at the same time. And that's human, and that's life.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

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

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

Living, it can be sad too.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.