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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”

“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

“Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expence.”

“He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”

“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”

“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!”