Life Pains Quotes

“Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate pain and rages; that it could enable Muriel to face the world and get a job; that it could free our writings, cure racism, end homophobia and adolescent acne.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Wisdom is immeasurably valuable but often it is painfully gained.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman