Joy Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

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

— Natalie Brenner

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;…

— Thomas More

“Whatever the internal mechanism that moderated the human capacity for joy, mine had long been broken beyond repair. And I knew this was a…

— Alexis Hall

“Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.”

— Sarah Schulman

“the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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“Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still…

— Michael Poeltl

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

“Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!”

— Paul Verlaine