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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

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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it ...

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wher...

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One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?That the strongest wander furthest ...

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx th...

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Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irr...

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the ...

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...

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But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. D...

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Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic ...

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John le CarréThe Constant Gardener

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can le...

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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

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And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps ...

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho...

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Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...

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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...

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The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrou...

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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s ...

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Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but...

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Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

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The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pa...

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And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but i...

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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pai...

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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelibl...

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My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform l...

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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

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Karl MarlantesWhat It is Like to Go to War

Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laug...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...

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She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewher...

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I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes a...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open an...

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Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from thi...

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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would ...

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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic...

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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana'...

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History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or ...

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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me...

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Because everything worth having hurts.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that ble...

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Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.

—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I und...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey ...

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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, ...

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...

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But when he’s cut, I bleed.

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying t...

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...

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I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

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I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and...

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The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, invo...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have l...

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Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearl...

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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time ...

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The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes sti...

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It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to anot...

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pai...

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She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment a...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...

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What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even,...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the...

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a ...

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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...

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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel i...

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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of ...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems