How would you know joy, if there was no pain?

“Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of…

— George Foster

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

— Yann Martel

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

— Euripides

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

— Ann Voskamp

Life is nothing but joy and pain, everything in between is just what makes it last longer

— S'Kay Kgotso Masithela

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the…

— Judith Barrington

“We celebrate God when we share in each other’s joy and pain”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Everyone suffers and rejoices in his own body, it’s hard to really feel what joy or pain another person feels.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I am who I am. Whether in joy or in pain. I am who I am.”

— Christie Golden

“She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.”

— Marcel Proust

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

— Martha Graham

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

— Kimberly Elise

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

— Taylor Swift

Joy and pain, are like sunshine and , rain.

— Anonymous