If there is one thing that will most certainly happen in everyone's life is the inevitability with which sorrow will grip your heart every once in a while. Every high is always followed with a trough and there is hardly anything you can do about it except to wade through it, hoping and praying for brighter times to set in. But like grief follows joy, the circle of life ensures that joy comes back to where grief has been. It is inevitable, remember? Good times will come back again. Even though the knowledge that tomorrow will be better and time will heal all does not ebb today's searing pain, one has to keep looking up, fight to keep the shroud of darkness from obliterating hope from the horizon completely. And knowing that you are not alone, that life sprinkles everybody's existence with difficult times is always soothing, embalming for a battered human soul. This article will give you some of the most famous words ever recorded, pertaining to grief and resurrection. There is always light out there somewhere, all you need to do is enable it to find and engulf you. A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go. - Author Unknown For though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had. - Sara Teasdale in "The Kiss" Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' - John Greenleaf Whittier Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. - Frank Morgan as the "Wizard of Oz" The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W. M. Lewis Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. - E. H. Chapin It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. - Mark Twain I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. - Helen Keller Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today? - Author Unknown They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. - Psalm 126:5, King James Version of the Bible Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Winston Churchill Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours. - William Osler My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. - Olive Schreiner The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them. - Author Unknown You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true. - Sidney Madwed When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always. - Mahatma Gandhi These words are attempts to show a grieving soul that bad times carry with them lessons that we should and must learn. They test your mettle and enhance your resilience. To learn and move on is something only the brave can do. To see the positive in every negative thrown across your path is the basic purpose of human existence. Like Clive Barker wrote in "Days of Magic, Nights of War", Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. If grief did not exist, the sweetness of joy would have remained elusive to us. In the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Letting grief fester is the way of the coward who seeks nothing but convenience. Hold on and hope - things will heal.