“Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven…”— Gia Carangi, astropunkk.tumblr.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
“We all bear scars,… Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.””— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“God is not allowing things to happen to you, God is allowing things to happen FOR you. Pain is growth.”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love. Divorce seems as if it will last forever, and then suddenly, one day, your children grow up, move out, and ma…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“owning our pain allows us the grace to move through it without blaming others for its significance in our lives.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“I can't lose you, I won't survive and that's your fault. You made me love you, you made me let you in.”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“Doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to g…”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“The hardest part about seeing someone you love in pain is not being able to do anything about it except try not to make it worse.”— Dan Fogelman, Toby, Chris Sullivan, imdb.com
“Neither yet can you be able to prove, that we either by word or writing have affirmed, that the principal end of any man’s creation was perpetual pain.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“A pain in the leg means 'don't put pressure on this leg'; a pain in the mind means 'change the way you live'.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks. For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“You’re twenty-one or twenty-nine and your heart’s been broken somewhere between four and twenty times—fetal-position-on-the-bathroom-floor broken, real-country-music broken—and you don’t know how you can ever be expected to go on like this for fifty more years and change.”— Jade Sylvan, pankmagazine.com