“You keep making poetry out of people who never stayed as if all the pretty words in the world can cover up the heartache.”— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.com
“American society celebrates people who publicly share their personal pain and channel it into something positive... Why should any of us expect people who have suffered profound trauma to relive it for our benefit or for the betterment of humanity?”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.com
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your…”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will ‘lessen as time passes,’ but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be abl…”— Fredrik Backman, amazon.com
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I kno…”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.com
“Homicide detectives know it as well. Emergency room nurses, paramedics—they all know the dirty little secret: It doesn’t get any easier. In fact, it lives in you. Every trauma, every horrible sight, every senseless death, every feral, blood-soaked act of violence in the name of self-preservation—the…”— Jay Bonansinga, amazon.com
“Glaciers could cleave continents, and the pain would still live somewhere in the secret chambers of the heart. For the lucky ones, scar tissue forms, and the passage of time builds more and more tissue until the pain is simply part of a person’s makeup, part of who he or she is—the grain in the wood…”— Jay Bonansinga, amazon.com
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.com
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.com
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“You do not get to destroy someone and decide how ruined they are allowed to feel.”— Anonymous, oriejames.tumblr.com
“Yes, life has its ups and downs. But those who learn to climb out of the downs and reach the ups will prosper.”— Connor Franta, amazon.com