Quotes

Sylvia Plath photo

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

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

Kenji Miyazawa photo

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”

Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) Japanese poet and author of children's literature
Thomas Jefferson photo

“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Heir to the Shadows

Christopher Hitchens photo
Robert Jordan photo

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”

Lews Therin Telamon
(7 January 2003)
Source: Crossroads of Twilight

Charles Bukowski photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Virginia Satir photo

“Why Family Therapy…because it deals with family pain. you”

Virginia Satir (1916–1988) American psychologist

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.”

Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru

The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life (1945), p. 121 (2001 edition)

Stanisław Leszczyński photo

“Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”

Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland

No. 8.
Maxims and Moral Sentences

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Improvisatrice (1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley photo

“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)

Peter Mere Latham photo

“It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.”

Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator

Book II, p. 474.
Collected Works

Democritus photo

“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“The very thing that is causing you pain is building you up.”

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 41