“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.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, spokenwordacademy.tumblr.com
“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I was so sentimental about you I’d break any one’s heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It’s broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love…”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.”— Stephen King, goodreads.com
“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”— Kate Jacobs, amazon.com
“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”— Henry Rollins, great-quotes.com
“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They gi…”— Samuel Beckett, 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
“Our emotional suffering is caused by our desire for things to be other than they are. The more we resist the fact of what is happening right now, the more we suffer.”— Kristin Neff, amazon.com
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org