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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty."
-Percy”

“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

“In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.”

“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”

“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…”

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”

“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”

“Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering… Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991”

“Societies which inflict pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them as well.”

“You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.”

“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”

“Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
Rich the treasure;
Sweet the pleasure;
Sweet is pleasure after pain.”

“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”