Quote by Ally Condie

“I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure…

— Ally Condie

“The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You…

— Ally Condie

“You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”

— Ally Condie

“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...”

— Lorrie Moore

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham)”

— Ally Condie

“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”

— Deborah Curtis

“There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”

— Neal Shusterman

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the…

— Aldous Huxley