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“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm.”

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

“Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.”

“It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.”

“A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

“Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.”

“Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do”

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation”

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain”

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

“Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.”

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”

“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…. is the true measure of the Divine within us.”

“Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”