“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Books and Reading
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Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The divine in man is our sole ground for believing that there is anything divine in the universe outside of man. Man is the revealer of the divine.
At bottom, the world is to be interpreted in terms of joy, but of a joy that includes all the pain, includes it and transforms it and transcends it.
The Light of the World is a light that is saturated with the darkness which it has overcome and transfigured.
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”
Michel Houellebecq book Atomised
Source: The Elementary Particles
“We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges”
Dana Reeve (1961–2006) Actress, singer, activist
Access Hollywood Interview (May 2005)
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 71
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic
"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
Interviews
“My joy is as painful as my pain.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 100
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A minha alegria é tão dolorosa como a minha dor.