“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”— Louis C.K., amazon.com
“Because it is beyond all bearing – The pain of loving soul’s silence.”— Anna Akhmatova, poetryloverspage.com
“The further inside you hide the hurt, the more it hurts inside. All wounds need air to heal.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”— Tom Gates, goodreads.com
“Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Words don’t hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”— Neal Shusterman, amazon.com
“Sometimes I forget that unsaid sentences do not mean unfelt emotions.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love — that person keeps changing. And later you wonder.. is this the same person I lost?”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”— Rose Gordon, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.”— Thomas E. Sniegoski, amazon.com
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.”— Jennifer Brown, amazon.com