Spider Robinson Quotes about Pain

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Pain, Empathy, Joy

Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

Spider Robinson

Pain, Law, Joy

"Callahan's Crosstime Saloon". Book by Spider Robinson, 1977.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

Spider Robinson

Pain, Giving, Joy

Spider Robinson (1981). “Time travelers strictly cash”