“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Be gentle with everyone you meet; we all have experienced pain, hurt, anger, and rejection. Be kind to everyone's spirit; you have no idea what healing your light can afford.”— Grace Gealey, originmagazine.com
“When someone comes to you with their pain, they are not asking you to decide if their experience is valid.”— Silvy Khoucasian, silvykhoucasian.com
“Women with circumcised partners are three times more likely to experience sexual pain than ladies with uncircumcised spouses.”— Cassie Shortsleeve, shape.com
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“The thing with grief is, it never completely goes away, no matter how numb you are.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.”— Shannon Hale, amazon.com
“Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those ey…”— Chase Brooks, amazon.com
“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“The term fell in love is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn’t land softly in love.”— N.B. Roberts, amazon.com
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“Seems to me when bad things happen, they happen to good people, really good people, who never deserve what comes to them.”— Susan May, amazon.com