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“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”

“And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.”

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”

“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

“But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.”

“Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

“Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.-
-"And?"
And it makes you vulnerable.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“… A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival…(Here be Dragons)”

“Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

“Education… is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,… by praise, but above all -- by example.”

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

“Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”

“Everyone is in pain. No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”