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“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

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“An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.”

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.)

Robert Graves photo

“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).
Poems

“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

[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/754537489805828096]
Tweets by year, 2016

Paul Simon photo

“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)

Conor Oberst photo

“I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

Get-Well-Cards
Conor Oberst (2008)

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“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

Alan Watts photo

“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

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“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

Ernst Jünger photo

“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) German writer

On Pain (1934)

Susan Cain photo

“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.”

John Mark Green

Source: https://m.facebook.com/JohnMarkGreenPoetry/photos/maybe-that-is-my-superpoweri-can-inhale-pain-and-breathe-out-poetrywriterquotes-/3371469836265687/

Thomas Paine photo

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
Thomas Paine photo

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thomas Paine book Common Sense

Source: Common Sense