“Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
"Little Earthquakes".
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“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.”
John Updike book Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Redux (1969)
Context: His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.
“A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have.”
Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
Secrets of Being Unstoppable
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189 - 190
Context: I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity, though it seems not to appear elsewhere in the universe. But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, its success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him.
(An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.)
“Take courage, lover!
Could you endure such pain
At any hand but hers?”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"Symptoms of Love" from More Poems (1961).
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“Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer
40 Inspiring Guides to a New Life
“girls always love to telling people not to" Mansplain"
but they do not care of, "Man's Pain"”
Dril Twitter user
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“I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
“Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXV.1
Tirukkural
“I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Get-Well-Cards
Conor Oberst (2008)
“Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.”
Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup Girl
Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 212
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
Alan Watts book The Wisdom of Insecurity
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“If you are silent about the pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Pleasure can only be experienced after going through pain and vice versa.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) German writer
On Pain (1934)
“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”
Susan Cain book Bittersweet
Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 56
“Maybe that is my superpower - I can inhale pain and breathe out poetry.”
Source: https://m.facebook.com/JohnMarkGreenPoetry/photos/maybe-that-is-my-superpoweri-can-inhale-pain-and-breathe-out-poetrywriterquotes-/3371469836265687/