Human existence Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“Joy is our purpose of existence.   Yet pain in life is inevitable.”

— eBookIt.com

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

— Natalie Brenner

“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it.”

— Brian Staveley

“pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.”

— Rick Hanson

“Suffering is the sorrow of joy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Suffering teaches joy.”

— Sonia Rumzi

“...I've come to learn that pain is inevitable in this world, but suffering is optional.”

— Helen Klein Ross

“...pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that brings only joy: love.”

— Paulo Coelho's

“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

“There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and…

— Todd Neva

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

— Neal Shusterman

“Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option”

— Chip Beck