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"You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane"
"For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth."
"Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival."
"Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain."
"Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise."
"Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains."
"Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine."
"Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do."
"I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me."
"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain."
"I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman."
"You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain."
"Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it."
"Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain"
"And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once."
"I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn."
"There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains."
"It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?"
"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil."
"Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer."
