“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”

“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”

“There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.”

“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”

“Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There isn’t any answer.
How long hasn’t there been any answer?
As long as I can remember.
And how long have you written?
As long as I can remember.
I mean poetry.
So do I.”

“I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.”

“"He who has a why, can bear any how." (quoting Victor Frankl)”

“In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
'Are you a doctor, sir?”

“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”