Quotes

Alan Ganoo photo

“Mauritius will continue to pursue its engagement with its friendly partners and international organizations with the objective of generating mutual goodwill and building stronger relationships.”

Alan Ganoo (1951) Mauritian politician

Source: Alan Ganoo (2022) cited in: " Foreign Minister reiterates Mauritius's Commitment in Building Stronger Ties with its Friendly Partners https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/press-releases/story/Foreign_Minister_reiterates_Mauritiuss_Commitment_in_Building_Stronger_Ties_with_its_Friendly_Partners-AFPR1901202210498/" in Zawya, 19 January 2022.

Francesca Lia Block photo
Jeremy Bentham photo
Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.”

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Source: Shards of Honour

“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”

Variant: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Marilyn Manson photo

“My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

Source: Into the Wild

Eckhart Tolle photo

“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

Source: The Power of Now

Holly Black photo

“To remind me, pain is the best teacher”

Source: White Cat

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

Source: We Were Liars

Michel Houellebecq photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Pain is only what you allow it to be”

Source: City of Ashes

Booker T. Washington photo

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
Guillaume Apollinaire photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“There is some pain that nothing heals" [Zarek}”

Source: Dance with the Devil

C.G. Jung photo

“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Frida Kahlo photo

“I just want the pain to end.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead