“If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..."469”

“I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”

“The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”

“I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.”

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”