Source: Catching Fire
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71
“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”
Charles Frazier (1950) American writer
Lois Lowry book The Giver
Variant: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Source: The Giver
Hank Green (1980) American vlogger
A Song About An Anglerfish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_wCaBZTCg <br class="br">Songs
“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: All Respects to Heaven, I Like it Here
“Learning's always a painful process.”
Luc Besson (1959) French film director, writer, and producer
Lucy (2014)
