FastSaying
But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which
are
have their origin in the ecstasies which
might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe
joy
memory
past
sorrow
yearning
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