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

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

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

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

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

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“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.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

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

Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter

“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.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

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

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

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

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

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

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

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

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist

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

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

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

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

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

Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017) American actress, television producer

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

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

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

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

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

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

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

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist