Joy and Pain Quotes

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

On sorrow floats laughter.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.

If you like my music and it brings you emotions whether Joy or Pain, I feel I have done my part to give you insight from my perspective and that it continues. I think music suppose to bring us all together and I am glad I can take you along on this journey.