“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which…”— Lance Armstrong, amazon.com
“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”— P.D. James, amazon.com
“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“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.com
“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 it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.”— Jennifer Brown, amazon.com
“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.com
“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“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.com
“Don't be scared... Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com