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33 quotes

1597

★ 1.0

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky-and it would be so much less fun if we were... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

Jean Rhys

1939

★ 1.8

Novel

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · 2005

★ 1.8

Poem

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark · 1820

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 1.9

Novel · Epistolary novel

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 2.0

Novel

Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 2.0

Poem

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King · 1859

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Job

Job 2:10 · 500 BC

★ 2.1

Play · History (play)

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

William Shakespeare

Henry V · 1599

★ 2.1

Essay

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 2.3

Play · History (play)

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2 · 1594

★ 2.9

Poem

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Robert Frost

1923

★ 3.5

Newspaper

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

The Times of London · 1960

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.

Colin Murray Parkes

1972

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

The Psychology of the Unconscious · 1912

★ 3.5

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife.

Heraclitus

480 BC

★ 3.7

Poem

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

William Blake

1805

★ 3.7

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