“Pain is the only thing that people will never deny.”

“I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also a secular system of government, and that the Church as representative of God upon earth may eo ipso claim — and always has claimed — absolute power in all things of this world.”

“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”

“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”

“It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

“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.”

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”

“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”