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“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

“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

“June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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

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

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

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

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

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

Arthur Golden (1956) American novelist

“Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

“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

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

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

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”

Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary

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

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

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

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

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

Kristin Cast book Hunted

“People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist