Sharing Pain Quotes

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel

“Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.”
― Adam Berlin, The Number of Missing

“Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it.
Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“For your every tear, know that I'll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I'll never disappear.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You can come to your friends with a problem and they will most usually blurt out a set of orders based entirely upon their own lives, which they believe you should follow. There is no thought process that goes into it, no internalization, no ingestion of your own pain into their own stomachs. I believe this is why, about a million people come to me with their problems rather than turning to their closest friends and family members; because I'm like that ancient tree with protruding roots, you can sit under my branches and as you cry I will soak your tears into me. We don't actually need humans with their many thoughtless advices. We need to be sitting under trees, asking roots to share in our pains.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.”
― Shannon Celebi

“I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson”
― Liza M. Wiemer, Hello?

“I adhered to this strategy right up to Mum's death, sharing experiences that I probably should have kept to myself, telling tales of drug-taking and STDs over a cup of tea at the kitchen table, graduating to infertility and marriage breakdown as I got older. There was never any condemnation from Mum, although she did gasp and shake her head sometimes. Whenever my life collapsed – which was often – I'd move back in with her, and no matter my age or what I was up to, she always put a hot-water bottle in my bed at night. [...]
Mum advised, supported and steered me through my many disasters. Whether I'd said something stupid to someone at a party, made a mistake at work, fallen out with a colleague, was lonely, applying for a job, in a difficult relationship or spiked with drugs at a nightclub, she helped me make sense of the situation and find a way forward.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright.”
― Tom Rob Smith

“Joyful life, sharing life with people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I've often read the advice, wait until you're fully healed to write your story. I disagree. If we all waited, most of our stories would never get written, and those who need our stories most would never hear them.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance