To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
When I saw how much pain love could bring I felt sorry for those in love, when I saw how much joy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
