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“Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.”
“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”
1950-07-17 http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,6761,222716,00.html
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”
Source: Heir to the Shadows
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(7 January 2003)
Source: Crossroads of Twilight
“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
Source: Infamous
“Why Family Therapy…because it deals with family pain. you”
Conjoint Family Therapy: A Guide to theory and technique (1967)
“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”
The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life (1945), p. 121 (2001 edition)
“Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”
No. 8.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore”
“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.”
Book II, p. 474.
Collected Works