“When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.” LittlesPainRememberGirlComedyFootballRedRootsBrownAbsurdityCartoonMottoCharliePeanutsRed Hair Author:Lev Yilmaz
“We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.” KnowsPainRememberLyingBornBirthRedRootsRoseFleshFlare Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.” HeartSoulEarthPainMinesDivineBearsRootsSoilConvinceOverwhelmingStrifeEverlastingRacksEverlasting Life Author:Stefan Zweig
“No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.” RealityPainSufferingSocialExistenceRootsRemainsUnnecessaryUnnecessary Suffering Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansHardPainDesireI BelieveWishFeltHuman BeingsAchieveHard WorkRootsSaintPsychologicalTemptationMotiveAttachmentAspireSainthood Book:Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950 Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950