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  • #1
    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    Julia Glass, Three Junes

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #5
    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    John Lennon

  • #6
    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    Sophocles

  • #7
    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #8
    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Did you really want to die?"
    "No one commits suicide because they want to die."
    "Then why do they do it?"
    "Because they want to stop the pain.”
    Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #10
    Erma Bombeck
    “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #11
    José N. Harris
    “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...”
    José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: pain

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Pain is only what you allow it to be”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: pain

  • #14
    Orson Scott Card
    “I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #15
    Umera Ahmed
    “What is next to ecstasy?
    Pain.
    What is next to pain?
    Nothingness.
    What is next to nothingness?
    Hell.”
    Umera Ahmed

  • #16
    Antonia Michaelis
    “Just a tiny little pain,
    Three days of heavy rain,
    Three days of sunlight,
    Everything will be alright,
    Just a tiny little pain.”
    Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller
    tags: pain

  • #17
    Criss Jami
    “When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #18
    Aeschylus
    “Wisdom comes through suffering.
    Trouble, with its memories of pain,
    Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
    So men against their will
    Learn to practice moderation.
    Favours come to us from gods.”
    Aeschylus, Agamemnon

  • #19
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    George Carlin

  • #22
    Jess C. Scott
    “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
    Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

  • #23
    Sophie Kinsella
    “In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

  • #24
    Simone Weil
    “All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
    Simone Weil

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #26
    Sue Grafton
    “Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.”
    Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out.
    Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #28
    Philip G. Zimbardo
    “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
    Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

  • #29
    Laurence Sterne
    “Human nature is the same in all professions.”
    Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  • #30
    Dean Koontz
    “..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
    Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas



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