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title: "11 Painful Knowing Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Waiting,forgetting is painful...but not knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/insane-insomniac/waiting-forgetting-is-painful-but-not-knowing/)

[Insane & Insomniac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/insane-insomniac/)

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> [Waiting and forgetting are painful. but not knowing whether to wait or forget is the worst kind of suffering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/waiting-and-forgetting-are-painful-but-not-knowing-whether-to-wait-or/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Waiting is painful .. forgetting is painful .. but not knowing what to do is the worst kind of suffering ..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/waiting-is-painful-forgetting-is-painful-but-not-knowing-what-to-do/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/waiting-is-painful-forgetting-is-painful-but-not-knowing-which-to-do/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/waiting-is-painful-forgetting-is-painful-but-not-knowing-which-to-do-2/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-trippi/losing-would-be-painful-but-not-as-painful-as-knowing-there-was/)

[Joe Trippi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-trippi/)

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> [Waiting is painful, forgetting is painful, but knowing which one to do is the worst kind of suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/waiting-is-painful-forgetting-is-painful-but-knowing-which-one-to-do/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Missing someone can be really painful, but what's even more painful is knowing that your the reason they're gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chee-vai-tang/missing-someone-can-be-really-painful-but-what-s-even-more-painful-is/)

[Chee Vai Tang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chee-vai-tang/)

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> [“Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful that never knowing what you're missing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mia-sheridan/maybe-having-something-good-and-then-having-to-let-it-go-is-more/)

[Mia Sheridan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mia-sheridan/)

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> [“if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/if-pain-must-come-may-it-come-quickly-because-i-have-a-life-to-live-2/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/at-times-it-may-seem-worse-harder-at-least-to-live-through-the/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

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