L’amore non esiste per renderci felici, ma per dimostrarci quando sia forte la nostra capacità di sopportare il dolore.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

God always provides a pleasant memory to help ease the pain of a bad experience.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God’s grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love...

Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

Getting habitual to her so much that you can’t think anything else but her all the time and one day she leaves. It is suddenly an existence crisis. It is painful. Everything feels worthless and...

And a rock feels no pain;And an island never cries.

Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

reality sucks, that’s probably why we dream. Why our bodies need sleep. So we can escape. Escape this earth, at least just for a little while. Everynight, we get to go away. Sleep is the...

Saying goodbye isn’t hard, but saying it to something you care about is what’s hard because you don’t want to forget the emotional pain and happiness they caused in your life.

The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time passes in the smallest of pieces, and pieces still smaller than those.This is...

Well, you could rejuvenate a man like a tree. Cut off bad memories of him, scrape off all pain, all disappointments, like dead tissue; cut off mistakes, stupid decisions, mistakes, x-ray thoughts. And that it...

The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It’s forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which gave rise to it in the first place.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you’re moving away from pain.

Another side of my heart is called pain: ever pumping!

People have so much pain inside them that they’re not even aware of.

There’s nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch’s laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one...

Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.

It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions...

When they call the slightest spending reductions ‘painful’, we will say ‘If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?’ And ‘If you want to experience real pain, just stay on...

ခ်စ္တယ္ဆုိတာ တျဖည္းျဖည္း တြယ္တာလာတာကို ေခၚတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ စေတြ႕လို႔ မ်က္လံုးခ်င္း ဆံုလိုက္တည္းက ႏွလံုးမွာ ထိခိုက္တဲ့ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာ ေကာင္းေကာင္းသိတဲ့ ဒဏ္ရာတစ္ခ်က္ပဲ။

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did; a burning pain that won’t leave me wherever I turn.

the gravity of wound to fist

There was no doubt now in Ender’s mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been...

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole...

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

Okay? You wanted me to ask you if you were okay? Jessie, I saw you! How could I think for one second you were okay? Do you think it’s normal for me to watch a...

Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Yes, angels exist. Many people say that ‘a loving God would never allow 9/11 to happen, or a really bad car crash, or starvation.’ Yet they neglect the fact that there were survivors of 9/11,...

The true test of a warrior is how your ‘stance’ holds up after any ‘circumstance’. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through...

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you’re the only one, and how...

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego...

But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There’s the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and...

What people don’t understand about depression is how much it hurts. It’s like your brain is convinced that it’s dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that’s...

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many...

I thought once was enoughYou turned to me and called my bluff,Maybe I should have walked awaybut I couldn’t resist, I needed replay after replay Loving you would be as easy as taking a breathBut to...

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.