“My pain is constant and sharp… this confession has meant nothing”
Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho
Source: American Psycho
“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.”
"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
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“there's no clarity.
there was never meant to be clarity.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Nick Land (1962) British philosopher
"Suspended Animation (Part 5)" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011) (original emphasis)
“Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American businessman
It Pains Me, Halpert, Julie, 2009-04-30, Newsweek, 2009-05-23 http://www.newsweek.com/id/195551,
“… The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”
Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant
Source: The Vampire's Assistant
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) French historian, medievalist, and historiographer
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“From the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.”
Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet
Source: "First Memory", Ararat (1990)