This proverb suggests that life is full of ups and downs. Anger and frustration often manifest in complicated and tangled ways, whereas joy comes in intervals, with moments of happiness interspersed with pauses. In other words, negative emotions can be persistent and knotted, while positive emotions appear more sporadically. An equivalent proverb in English would be ‘Every cloud has a silver lining,’ as it shows that difficult times precede better ones.