If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do…

“If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes life alive,…

— M. Scott Peck

“Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms…

— Margaret Atwood

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of…

— Zadie Smith

“I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed.”

— Stephen King

When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it,…

— Fuyumi Ono

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

— Jenny Holzer

“It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is that we would rather be crippled by what we…

— Sally Vickers

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never…

— Jim Butcher

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

— Bruce Springsteen

“What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?”

— Amy Plum

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk…

— José N. Harris

As a rose cant live without the rain So a heart can't love without risk of pain

— Anonymous

“To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it’s a risk that’s worth taking.”

— Deirdre Martin

Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married…

— Annie Lowrey

Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The…

— Jacqueline Fernandez