Joy Quote by Claire Holden Rothman

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

— Peter Ackroyd

“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

“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter…

— Herman Melville

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.”

— Natalie Brenner

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,…

— Kit Rocha

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

— Neal Shusterman

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To me, it seems the only pleasure in this world worth having is the joy we derive from living for those we love, and…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness…

— Hans Christian Andersen