Joyful Sorrow Quotes

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.