Pain Quotes by John Green

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

— John Green

“All pain deserves to be felt”

— John Green

“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

— John Green

“Without pain, How can we know joy?”

— John Green

“Without pain we wouldn't know joy”

— John Green

“without pain we don't know joy”

— John Green

It hurt because it mattered.

— John Green

“The thing with pain, is that it is demand to be felt.”

— John Green

“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt.”

— John Green

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

— John Green

“Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.”

— John Green

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

— John Green

“Pain is a blunt and non-specific diagnostic instrument.”

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“I knew from years of experience that pain is a blunt and nonspecific diagnostic instrument.”

— John Green

“You of all people know it is possible to live with pain.”

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“There's hurt. There's pain. There's hurt-and-pain-at-once.”

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I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our…

— John Green

“Pain is like a cloth: the stronger it is, the more value it has." Is that true, Hazel? The grief does not…

— John Green

“No,” Isaac mumbled, his chest heaving. “That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to…

— John Green

“Augustus stepped toward him and looked down. “Feel better?” he asked. “No,” Isaac mumbled, his chest heaving. “That’s the thing about pain,”…

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“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”

— John Green

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a…

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“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,…

— John Green

“Gus sat there, pumping his fist, waiting for the medicine to work, the medicine that did not kill the pain so much…

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Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.…

— John Green

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like…

— John Green

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity…

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You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy…

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I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that…

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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but…

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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was…

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I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it…

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“He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders. “Dude, pillows don’t break. Try something that breaks.” Isaac reached for…

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She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having…

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“I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has…

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The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it…

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“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It…

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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better…

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“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.”

— John Green

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

— John Green