“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.com
“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.com
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”— Tom Hodgkinson, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”— Joe Abercrombie, amazon.com
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”— Adi Alsaid, amazon.com
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”— Hubert Selby, amazon.com