“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
Helen Keller book The Story of My Life
Source: The Story of My Life
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“Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
“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 <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”
Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) Japanese poet and author of children's literature
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Heir to the Shadows
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
Robert Jordan book Crossroads of Twilight
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”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Infamous
“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)
“Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 8.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“My pain is constant and sharp… this confession has meant nothing”
Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho
Source: American Psycho
“I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
“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)
“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)
“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.
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