“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Survival, Happiness, Misery
“You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”— J.D. Stroube, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Survival, Despair
“My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Survival
“Don't be scared... Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Women, Scared
“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Knives, struggles
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”— Louise Penny, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Stabbing, Betrayal
“You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn’t. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didn’t want to eat your greens. If you hid them underneath a piece of furniture, sooner or later your mum would discov…”— Corallie Buchanan, amazon.comTagged: Pain, pretending, Hidden
“Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.comTagged: Pain, hurt, Selfish
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Numb, Feelings
“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”— P.D. James, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Feelings, emotions
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”— Rodman Philbrick, amazon.comTagged: Pain, minds, Thoughts
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”— Jamie Magee, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Living, Lessons
“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”— S.M. Boyce, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Healing, Destruction
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”— Geraldine Solon, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, Sadness, Hope
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”— Tom Hodgkinson, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Energy, Pleasure
“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Fear, Embraced
“Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple”— Aberjhani, amazon.comTagged: Pain, School, Teacher
“Why can not we feel too much happiness? Too much joy? Too much pride? Why do we always have to choose too much pain? Maybe it is because pain is the only emotion making us feel alive – making us feel that there is something inside of us is damaged but still works. Maybe it is because we crave for a…”— Dyn Lagrimas, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Pain, Joy, Happiness
“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”— Mary Balogh, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Life, Time
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”— Joe Abercrombie, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Improvement, Suffering
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.comTagged: Pain, danger, purpose
“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Living, dead
“Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there…”— Jim Butcher, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Failure, strength, Teaching
“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.”— Adam Silvera, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Happiness, Growing Up
“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Life, Joy
“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”— Adi Alsaid, amazon.comTagged: Pain, alive, Happiness
“Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Life, Move On