"Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own."
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"Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own."
"Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other."
"Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage."
"And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with."
"Oh, poor baby,โ she said, mimicking his drawl.โWhew. Youโre back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me.โShe laughed. โThey locked her back up in the loony bin.โโGood, because thereโs only one Susie for meโthe one who calls me on my crap and doesnโt let me get away with jack shit. Thatโs the Susie I need. Thatโs the Susie Iโve missed coming home to over the last year.โ He kissed her. โAnd thatโs the Susie whoโs going to leave a gaping hole in my heart and my life if she doesnโt give me another chance."
"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."
"While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us."
"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is."
"Unfortunately, the escape became the trap."
"We do not leave those whom we truly love. We only break the hearts of those whom we can tolerate their hurts and can move away from their pain" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions"
"The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done."
"I donโt know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go."
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
"You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You donโt know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the difference between touching snow and putting your hand in a vat of liquid nitrogen."
"I hate that question, โAre you okay?โ Itโs like asking someone if they think you look fat. Youโre almost guaranteed to get a lie."
"You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear."
"The pain is not about having cheap people aroundโฆ. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with."
"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
"You donโt say, โIโm sorry,โโ he says. โGetting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. Thereโs no reason to apologize for that.โ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, โIf by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.โ (Iโm not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)"
"one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful"
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