“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

Danielle Steel book Friends Forever

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Suffering for another is one of the most painful ways to love!”

Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“There is nowhere morning does not go.”

Leah Hager Cohen American writer

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet