Doug Davidson Quotes

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

If you didn't have bad times, then you wouldn't appreciate the good moments.

I write about the dark and the happy.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Life at best is bittersweet.

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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.