Inspirational Quote by Nick Harkaway

“before pain came to mean not what was lost but what remained.”

— A.A. Attanasio

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.”

— George Orwell

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or…

— Charles de Lint

“The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.”

— Charlie Jane Anders

“...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.”

— Dave Donovan

“I could live through it. It didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.”

— Glen Duncan

“I saw pain as nature’s reminder that there is something important for me to learn.”

— Ray Dalio

“It didn’t feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I’d grown strong enough to bear it.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“But the loss of possibilities was always undeniably painful.”

— Meg Wolitzer