
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”
“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
Source: Summer by the Sea
“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”
“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84
“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”
Variant: Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Source: The Princess Bride
“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should”
“Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.”