Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.


Honduran Proverb

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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow
SWEDISH PROVERB
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division.
R.A. SALVATORE
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is li...
R.A. SALVATORE
Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is lif...
R.A. SALVATORE
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that ...
RUCKETT
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
SPIDER ROBINSON
A joy shared is a joy doubled
C.S. LEWIS
Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy.
SPIDER ROBINSON
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN
Joy lives concealed in grief.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Wisdom comes through many shared moments of joy.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AESCHYLUS AESCHYLUS
Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AESCHYLUS
No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.
HENRY CAREY
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
DANTE
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LEIGH BARDUGO
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
What is Friendship when complete?
'Tis to share all joy and grief;
'Tis to lend all due rel...
ANNE FINCH
Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief,some joy ...
JOHNNY CASH
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with...
MARK TWAIN
JOY is a deceptive trap; grief is the real preceptor, teaching caution, circumspection, discriminati...
ATHARVA VEDA
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER
Tears shed for happiness laughter joy and grief never be afraid to let them fall
DARLENE WATSON
Shared sorrow is half sorrow
DANISH PROVERB
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each...
JIM BISHOP
The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Our hearts are filled with joy this morning. Together we have endured uncertainty, hope, fear, grief...
DOUG PRITCHARD
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
INGA MUSCIO
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se...
MAHAVIRA
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...
JODI PICOULT
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one an...
FRANZ SCHUBERT
That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
MARY OLIVER
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one a...
FRANZ SCHUBERT
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rag...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
A lot of the (participants) are creative people, so this is a good way for them to have an outlet fo...
JEAN PRICE
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it...
MARK TWAIN
He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhap...
WILLIAM COWPER
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MARK TWAIN
The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For pr...
ROBERT BURNS
"When we've been there 10,000 years..." / We'll see all trips were brief, / For there love's joy wil...
DAVID L. HATTON
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
FRANCIS BACON SR.
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HELEN KELLER
Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Our family is a circle of love and strength. With every birth and every union, the circle grows. Eve...
ANTHONY BRANDT
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
GERRY ADAMS
Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and lov...
JANDY NELSON
Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
JACQUELINE CAREY
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy, some grief...
JOHNNY CASH
Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it o...
DENNIS LEHANE
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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MARIE LU
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reac...
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd b...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where...
WALTER WANGERIN JR.
For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY
Gloom is a grief.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between th...
AUDRE LORDE
Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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MARK DOTY
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' ...
ROBERT BURNS
The more deeply we dive, the less we mind upsetting waves, finding within intimate relationship an i...
ROBERT AUGUSTUS MASTERS
I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble s...
VIKKI WAKEFIELD
They shared how they had lost six family members. As we prayed, the woman broke into sobs of grief f...
DOUG STRINGER
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Grief is grief. It's always a little backwards when a young person dies, regardless of their age.
DONNA DEEDS
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
DENNIS LEHANE
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA
Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so t...
DIANA JABER
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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