We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
-David Weatherford

The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.
-Kahlil Gibran

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-Washington Irving

Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling.

However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore.

The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure…
-Jonathan Franzen
 

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 Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-Bill Blass

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-Frederick Douglass

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-Anonymous

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
-Winston Churchill

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
-Anais Nin

Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome
-Jimi Hendrix

 

However long the night, the dawn will break.
-African Proverb

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin