Erica Jong Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

• Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Evil, Joy

• The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

  Erica Jong

  Love, Pain, Joy

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

• I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

  Erica Jong

  Character, Writing, Thinking

• The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Past, Joy

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

• It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

  Erica Jong

  Pain, Writing, Joy

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 25, 2012

• The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

  Erica Jong

  Fun, Men, Perfect

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