Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.” — Abraham Harold Maslow Copy Share Image
“In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.” — Carl R White Copy Share Image
Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
“A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Crying doesn't make you weak. Even though tears are just water leaving your body, it is also pain leaving your soul to… — Modestas Rinkevicius Copy Share Image
The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and pain. Well I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who… — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“So I added in all the pains I'd learned. Cooking blunders I'd had to eat anyways. Equipment and property constantly breaking down,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Make pain into comfort and hate into love, never let negativity make itself at home! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kids. Pain in the ass. Don't know why I ever made them. Hell on relationships.” — Karen Marie Moning 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
Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again. — Hal Summers Copy Share Image
“A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“Have you ever loved your murderer As you were coming back from the dead?” — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
