Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Guillaume Apollinaire28
French poet 1880–1918Related quotes
“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.
“From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy.
And again the ascent begins — which is pain — and joy is reborn and new hope springs up once more. The circle never closes. It is not a circle, but a spiral which ascends eternally, ever widening, enfolding and unfolding the triune struggle.
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”
Friedrich Schiller The Maid of Orleans
The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line
Valerie Hobson (1917–1998) actress
David Profumo, "Bringing the House Down", (John Murray, 2006), serialised in the Daily Telegraph, 2 September 2006.
In her 10th Wedding Anniversary letter to her husband John Profumo, written in 1965, two years after the scandal in which his adultery was revealed.
