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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty."
-Percy”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
Jim Carrey (1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer
Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful': Star Talks About Bouts With Depression And His Spirituality http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/18/60minutes/main656547.shtml 60 Minutes (21 November 2004)
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter V, Consolation For A Broken Heart, p. 199.
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
Irving Stone (1903–1989) American writer
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”
Silencer.
A→B Life (2002)
“Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering… Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991”
Layne Staley (1967–2002) American singer
“Societies which inflict pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them as well.”
James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
“You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
"Where No Word Can Travel"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 57–60.
Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic
Quoted in Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152