Spider Robinson Pain Quotations

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy

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

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.

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.