“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
Variant: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.
“Suffering for another is one of the most painful ways to love!”
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Wheaton, Illinois http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/wheaton-illinois-sep1590-backup-copy.html (September 15, 1990)
In Concert
“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”
The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.