Happiness Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of…

— Lydia Millet

“Yearning for a better, brighter, more beautiful and sensitive life is borne in pain.”

— Anonymous

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Pain is pain, long or short; it’s still felt, still suffered,”

— Donna Fletcher

“Pain is like love; indescribable”

— Feh

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

— Samuel Richardson

“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting…

— Bryant McGill

“There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it—the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as…

— Laini Taylor

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I felt melancholy, I felt joy, I felt dread, I felt a sadness so deep it cannot be described in words. I felt emotions…

— Charles Yu

“My mother's suffering grew into as symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden…

— Richard Wright

“That night, having wriggled down into my futon all alone, I found myself in the grips of a wrenching sadness. I was only a…

— Banana Yoshimoto