“That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s not the pain that makes you suffer. It’s your own negative thoughts that make it worse.”— hairosebear, hairosebear.deviantart.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept in days. I hate this, hate insomnia more than anything, just lying there, brain going round, tick, tick, tick, tick. I itch all over. I want to shave my head.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“A familiar ache fills my chest. I have felt this way before. On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. Where did I take the wrong turn?”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“By virtue of being human, you will experience suffering, confusion, remorse, and loneliness over your lifetime. This is normal. The really good news? You can easily shift the scale in your favor if you choose to ignore all of the things that are considered normal or rites of passage and instead rema…”— Ran Zilca, greatist.com
“There’s one thing I dislike more than being hurt, it’s being seen to be hurt.”— Ruth Ware, amazon.com
“The world is real; the suffering of others is real; one's actions can sometimes irrevocably determine the destiny of others; the mistakes one makes are often transmuted directly into others' pain; there is sometimes no way to undo that pain-the dead remain dead, the maimed are forever maimed, and th…”— David Shields, amazon.com
“Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet’s dwindling natural resources.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com