“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”
Friedrich Schiller The Maid of Orleans
The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line
“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.
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