Quotes

Bette Davis photo

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
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Bob Dylan photo

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

Eckhart Tolle photo

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Paulo Coelho photo

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: Summer by the Sea

Aristotle photo

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Orhan Pamuk photo

“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Haruki Murakami photo

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

IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84

William Goldman photo

“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

Charles Bukowski photo

“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.”

Source: Hunted

Charles Manson photo