“From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy.”
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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Nikos Kazantzakis 222
Greek writer 1883–1957Related quotes
“Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”
No. 8.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
The Exile's Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
“My joy is as painful as my pain.”
Ibid., p. 100
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A minha alegria é tão dolorosa como a minha dor.
Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”