Curse Quote by Colum McCann

“Everything she has held back, everything she has tried to stifle, everything she has tried not to show in order to protect the people…

— Fredrik Backman

“This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined…

— Maggie Nelson

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

— Sarada Devi

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

— Alexander Pope

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning…

— Sarah J. Maas

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

— Mother Teresa

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins…

— Tim Burton

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged…

— Mary Balogh

The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

— Michael Grant

“he who can befriend even his most terrible pain is one who can turn it around and transmute even curses into GIFTS of power…

— Jocelyn Soriano

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

— Mitch Albom

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a…

— Lionel Shriver