“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”
Source: Acheron
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As quoted in "Moon So-ri interview: “People usually run in sneakers, whereas I had to run in high heels”" in Eastern Kicks (20 May 2018) https://www.easternkicks.com/features/moon-so-ri-interview-people-usually-run-in-sneakers-whereas-i-had-to-run-in-high-heels

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Frost snorted. “I certainly do—if he has observed it with his own eyes and ears, or gets it from a source known to be credible. A fact doesn’t have to be understood to be true. Sure, any reasonable mind wants explanations, but it’s silly to reject facts that don’t fit your philosophy.”
Elsewhen (pp. 161-162)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”
Source: Styxx

As quoted in "Headbanger's Ball" (10 December 1996), MTV Europe.
1990s

“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”
Source: Man and Wife