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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was...

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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it...

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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probab...

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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelin...

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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of...

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It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, s...

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Hugh LaurieThe Gun Seller

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling...

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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily...

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it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to...

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His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he...

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I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and ...

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Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we lo...

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves wi...

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I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.

...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness.

And then a silver hare, a boar, and a fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione's heads: The dementor...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

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Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to...

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Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to ...

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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long ...

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Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . ...

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There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...

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That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I s...

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What is pain to a man? A privilege!

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it ...

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If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I woul...

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live...

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The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be...

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James JonesFrom Here to Eternity

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours...

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James JonesFrom Here to Eternity

For really it was the refinement of civilized cruelty, this spick, span, and ingenious affair of shi...

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, woul...

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When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with ...

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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being bo...

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Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...

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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my...

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It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. Whe...

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People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're yo...

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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every...

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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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Jeremy BenthamThe Principles of Morals and Legislation

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: Y...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for hi...

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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regr...

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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transfor...

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Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physi...

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Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it...

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Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But i...

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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. ...

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Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We...

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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what yo...

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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than...

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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...

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Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, pr...

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My arms are empty without you!My heart cries out, lonely in the darkness, but you are not here.No te...

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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time u...

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You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understoo...

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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why ...

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the com...

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Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain...

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I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain an...

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Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

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I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provide...

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When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind ca...

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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

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The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that...

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This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto t...

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The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, ...

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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both ...

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That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have ...

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and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too b...

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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that ...

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