Books Quote by Heather Killough-Walden

“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.”

— Sara Daigle

“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,…

— Kit Rocha

“And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.”

— Julia Hoban

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.”

— Mia P

“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too…

— Bronnie Ware

“It hurts, but then, what doesn't? Pain proves that we're alive, gives us the ability to appreciate pleasure - everything in balance, everything in…

— Ann Aguirre

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“Pain is a reminder that God has not forgotten us. He cares enough to allow us to experience in a small way what He…

— Norma Gail

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough