Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had…

— William Boyd

“I needed to pay attention, to be ready to step through and descend into it, whatever it was. It felt archetypal. Something in me…

— Jane Fonda

“Pain is temporary, giving up forever”

— Jay Embrechts

“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me…

— M.B. Wilmot

“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with…

— Gillian Flynn

“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel the kick…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Pain has a way of marinating, sometimes you don’t feel the full force of it until much, much later.”

— Izzy Sweet

“Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.”

— Matt Haig

“ALL PAIN IS TEMPORARY.”

— Fisher Newman

“Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.”

— Rae Carson

“The pain was swift and immediate. It wasn't stabbing, or fiery, or unbearable. More like a fraying of my inner self, a few threads…

— Julie Kagawa