“It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.”
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Canadian fantasy author 1959Related quotes

My Day (1935–1962)
Context: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)

“Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”
Source: Someone Dies, Someone Lives


“Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.”
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 153 (tr. Fagles)