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“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”

Aminatta Forna book The Memory of Love

“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”

Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

“One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain.
~Toshiro Hitsugaya”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Lunatic Cafe