“Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.”

“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”

Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

Agatha Christie book Sad Cypress

“You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

“It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.”

Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“We must live today and never regret about past, which often brings nothing but melancholy. ”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”

Euripidés Alcestis

“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor