Top 100 Pain Joy Quotes
#1. What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.
Isaac Asimov
#2. We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.
Desmond Tutu
#3. I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all.
A.L. Jackson
#4. Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
Philip Zaleski
#5. Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard
#6. The currency of life is passion, and as with any coin, it has two sides: pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow. Impossible to slip a single side of that coin in your pocket. You take all or nothing."
"Perhaps we are alike, you and I, and I prefer my pockets empty."
"My pockets are far from empty.
Karen Marie Moning
#7. Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on ... like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.
Brian Wilson
#9. Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light.
Hella S. Haasse
#10. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
John Green
#11. Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Wynton Marsalis
#12. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#13. You can't easily break out of this cycle of love. It's always here and there up and down.. pain and joy, this wonderful feeling of being in love, which will come to an end later, is so dominating through your entire life. And you cannot escape it.
Till Lindemann
#14. What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'-Asterin/Manon
Sarah J. Maas
#15. Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.
Taya Kyle
#17. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners
Bodo Schafer
#18. Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy.
Anonymous
#19. Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
Fred Rogers
#20. I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy,
Jim Carroll
#21. Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87
Melody Beattie
#22. All recurring joy is pain refined.
Amy Lowell
#23. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
M. Scott Peck
#24. Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
Billy Graham
#25. I know you love how I make it all go away:
all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.
For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons.
For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;
and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me.
Say Anything, Skinny Mean Man
#26. Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.
Marlene Caroselli
#27. Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
Banana Yoshimoto
#29. When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.
Brene Brown
#30. Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've overcome. Not IF, not POSSIBLY, not MAYBE, but ONCE you have overcome.
J. Junior Reynolds II
#31. Life is a series of deaths and resurrections, losses and gains, pain and joy.
Torry Martin
#32. Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.
David Lagercrantz
#33. Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.
Alice Borchardt
#34. Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
#35. It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.
Garth Brooks
#36. It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me
Sarah J. Maas
#37. Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs pain, but the pain is worth it. After all, the murder had to take place before the resurrection.
Katie Davis
#38. His vocals are the stuff of legend - strong, clean, and powerful with a rawness that hooks into your soul and gives it a tug. He sings, and you feel he's doing it just for you, taking your pain, frustration, joy, rage, sorrow, and love and giving it a voice.
Kristen Callihan
#39. When I write, I bring joy in my readers face
In my face, peace and complete happiness
But hardly I give any such reflection
During those times, I am in pain
A Sick person who is insane, mad and dead
Santosh Kalwar
#40. Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
Spider Robinson
#41. In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
Danielle Cormack
#42. After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
Kelly Cutrone
#43. A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain.
Fred D'Aguiar
#44. What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.
Nobuyoshi Araki
#45. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling.
When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#46. You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy.
Lewis B. Smedes
#47. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
Neal Shusterman
#48. The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
Myrtle Reed
#49. In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.
Michael Shaara
#50. True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love
Mother Teresa
#51. Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.
Lawren Leo
#52. I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate. And the days when joy was delirious.
Jennifer Worth
#53. If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off ... then I'll be successful.
Bobby McFerrin
#54. Because all endings have a certain a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.
Heather Brewer
#55. Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#56. There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ...
Cate Tiernan
#57. Beauty is a paradox,
every joy must taste of pain,
every goodness bears a wound,
every faded memory stains the mind
Poeticmusings
#58. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
George Herbert
#59. The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
Gary Zukav
#60. As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
Julian Of Norwich
#61. The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.
Frederick Lenz
#62. The trick is not how much pain you feel
but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Erica Jong
#63. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#64. If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. God trades our ashes for beauty, and our pain for joy.
T.K. Chapin
#66. In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE - be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#67. Our pain and mistakes and faults are an integral part of us. They make our joy and successes and qualities all the more significant.
Jasinda Wilder
#68. Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.
Justin Vernon
#69. THE JOY OF DISCIPLINE OR THE PAIN OF REGRET, WHICH WILL IT BE TODAY?
Tony Horton
#70. Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#71. As the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with sudden, drenching showers before the sun returns, I know that both pain and joy are needed for life to grow.
Teri Terry
#72. And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
Lauren Oliver
#73. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.
Anthony Ryan
#74. The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.
Sandra Dallas
#75. She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.
Chuck Palahniuk
#76. Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.
Leo Tolstoy
#77. When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.
Christopher Pike
#78. Better
while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.
Lola Ridge
#79. There's a moment when fingers of heat race through your skin and light your clitoris. You start to get wet and your juices douse the flames of pain and erupt in an all-consuming pleasure. This is the joy of spanking.
Chloe Thurlow
#80. Don't set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful.
Debasish Mridha
#81. I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.
Juliana Hatfield
#83. Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
Oscar Wilde
#84. People who didn't have deep feelings never experienced deep joy or deep pain. They lived in a trivial, pale shadow of life where nothing was ever a big deal, and
Mark Nolan
#85. Pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
Walter Dean Myers
#86. I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#87. I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
Sara Gilbert
#88. I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
Joseph F. Girzone
#89. Baby, I don't feel pain. Ever. (Talon)
Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine)
It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon)
But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee
#91. Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. After the rain, the sun will reappear.
There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Walt Disney Company
#93. What you see as imperfection draws me to you. People grow languorous from their joy. They derive strength from their pain.
Chelsea Pitcher
#95. Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world,
unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.
Kartik Mehta
#96. Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold ...
W.E.B. Du Bois
#97. I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
Lupita Nyong'o
#98. You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
Carol Burnett
#99. Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life ... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.
Ashton Kutcher
#100. Images have their way of dissolving and then abruptly returning, pulling along the joy and pain attached to them like tin cans rattling from the back of an old-fashioned wedding vehicle.
Patti Smith
