Quotes

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

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: The Running Dream

Padre Pio photo
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Diana Gabaldon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Robin McKinley photo
Sylvia Day photo
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“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;
What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.”

"The Marrow," ll. 11-12
The Far Field (1964)

Ali Mohamed Shein photo

“It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.”

Ali Mohamed Shein (1948) President of Zanzibar

Insisting investors to give local produce first priority. 2007-11-14 http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/11/14/102447.html

Chris Cornell photo

“If you knew someone who was terminally ill and in grave pain, would you participate in an assisted suicide? I would.”

Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician

Chris Cornell official Twitter, April 18, 2009, http://archive.is/kqUNK, no https://twitter.com/chriscornell/status/1552596343,
Chris Cornell official Twitter, April 18, 2009, http://archive.is/3yjSP, no https://twitter.com/chriscornell/status/1553316027,
On depression and suicide

Antoine Augustin Cournot photo

“Anyone who understands algebraic notation, reads at a glance in an equation results reached arithmetically only with great labour and pains.”

Source: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 4; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 197): About mathematics as language

“What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.”

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)

Thomas Moore photo

“To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Eminem photo

“Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it's like adrenaline: The pain is such a sudden rush for me!”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Stan"
2000s, The Marshall Mathers L.P. (2000)

“pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable”

have you ever seen anyone who could take anything from me against my will, ever, anywhere, anytime?
The Silver Wolf