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You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the best music for heart.
— Debasish Mridha
No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
— Debasish Mridha
Doing more for others makes your life more abundant.
— Debasish Mridha
Improve your relationship with you.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a fresh flower!
— Debasish Mridha
If you can live while doing what you love, then you are already a success.
— Debasish Mridha
Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure.
— Debasish Mridha
Love and kindness are a kind of gun that we can use to change everyone without hurting anyone.
— Debasish Mridha
The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self.
— Debasish Mridha
Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the same time, thoughts are the byproducts of complex interactions of these intelligent atoms.
— Debasish Mridha
We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.
— Debasish Mridha
The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.
— Debasish Mridha
You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires.
— Debasish Mridha
The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.
— Debasish Mridha
Integrity and self trust are the two important powers that can help you to reach success.
— Debasish Mridha
The journey to success is easy if you know the road map and have persistence and perseverance.
— Debasish Mridha
Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person.
— Debasish Mridha
When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.
— Debasish Mridha
The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space.
— Debasish Mridha
We can never live in the past
—  so everyday we begin anew.
Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective.
— Debasish Mridha
The most powerful force on earth is residing in your heart
—  it is your power of love.
Initially, the truth may hurt, but lies hurt always.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is not a destination to be reached, but it is a journey to be enjoyed.
— Debasish Mridha
True freedom comes only from true wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no right or wrong
—  only our thoughts and perceptions make it so.
A poet is a silent singer
—  he sings the deep songs of the soul silently.
To be a success, dream with open eyes, have faith in your defined purpose, and act with deep love.
— Debasish Mridha
On the way toward success, obstacles are the barrier to build the power of the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
— Debasish Mridha
Your path should be lighted with love and trust, your purpose should be clear, and your goal should be the light post.
— Debasish Mridha
Do not let your problems become a burden and interfere with your endless possibilities.
— Debasish Mridha
Have an intention, take action, and then learn on the way to success.
— Debasish Mridha
Life becomes empty if we fill it with worthless thoughts and deeds.
— Debasish Mridha
Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you.
— Debasish Mridha
I am burning within with an immeasurable, indescribable endless joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
A tree is more conscious than we are; she expresses her awareness slowly and silently with beauty. Our consciousness is very limited, but we are blessed with a language to express or superficial consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the greatest gift of life. Those who give and receive are blessed with the ecstasy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is an awareness—a blissful perception, not in ownership or in material possessions.
— Debasish Mridha
When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours.
— Debasish Mridha
Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.
— Debasish Mridha
Greatness often demands great sacrifice.
— Debasish Mridha
Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others.
— Debasish Mridha
You can be kind only when you are in love.
— Debasish Mridha
Our awareness about ourselves and the world around us is so limited that we are ready to destroy ourselves. For the survival of humanity, an evolution of consciousness is essential.
— Debasish Mridha
Love as if you were created by the universe just to love.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is absolutely impossible without love.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not the duration but the donation of life that matters the most.
— Debasish Mridha
Be an example and open a new way for life.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.
— Debasish Mridha
Accept love with love, but never forget to forgive hate with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Dare to love and get lost in yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
Every thing—every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
We are the flower of eternal consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
Be an encourager not a pacifier.
— Debasish Mridha
There are many levels of consciousness, but atomic consciousness or universal consciousness is the basis of all other levels of consciousness. A tree is very much conscious even though in our point of view they are not conscious.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.
— Debasish Mridha
Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a gift, but living is a choice.
— Debasish Mridha
Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different.
— Debasish Mridha
As water changes its shape according to the shape of the vessel, I change myself by changing my thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky.
— Debasish Mridha
Smile to lighten up.
— Debasish Mridha
Everything has a consciousness. Every atom and molecule is conscious. Every virus and bacteria is conscious. Every tree, large and small animals are conscious, but each level of consciousness is different. All humans are conscious; the level of consciousness among humans also differs.
— Debasish Mridha
When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated.
— Debasish Mridha
The level of consciousness determines the deepness of thoughts and the awareness of the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future.
— Debasish Mridha
You are intelligent if you know what you do not know.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution.
— Debasish Mridha
Sleeping is not a loss of consciousness, but it is a temporary loss of integration of awareness.
— Debasish Mridha
The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Breath is the bridge that connects us with the mysteries of the universe and universal consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus.
— Debasish Mridha
Our learned egocentric and judgmental consciousness is the source of unhappiness; however, universal consciousness is always blissful.
— Debasish Mridha
What we call spirit is our universal consciousness. We can also call it atomic consciousness. Every atom is conscious and knows everything that is going on around it at every moment.
— Debasish Mridha
Consciously or unconsciously, the only person you should compete with is you.
— Debasish Mridha
Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.
— Debasish Mridha
To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.
— Debasish Mridha
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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
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
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
— John Lennon
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door —Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more."Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore —Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; — 'Tis the wind and nothing more."Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore —Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning— little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door —Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
— Bob Dylan
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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
The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.
— C.R. Strahan
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
— Andrew  Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
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
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
The cure for pain is in the pain.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?
— Shannon L. Alder
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.
— Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence ar
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Pain is only what you allow it to be
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
— Alanis Morissette
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
— Zora Neale Hurston
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade
A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.
— Rachel Sontag, House Rules
If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
— Henry Rollins
Warriors should suffer their pain silently.
— Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
— A.W. Tozer
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
— C.G. Jung
Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Scars
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. 
— James Frey, My Friend Leonard
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
— George Orwell, 1984
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
— Sophocles
I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
— Ally Condie, Matched
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
— Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell.
— Umera Ahmed
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, مثنوی معنوی
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
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
— Lev Grossman
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
— P.D. James, Innocent Blood
If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.
— Sophocles, Ajax
We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. 
— Dan Millman
There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
— Richard Attenborough
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.
— Alex Flinn, Beastly
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson
Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.
— Ai Yazawa
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
— John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
— P.D. James, The Children of Men
Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you tried being more like me? Have you tried shutting up? Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying, and yes, I am still sick. Sometimes monsters are invisible, and sometimes demons attack you from the inside. Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth does not mean they aren’t ripping through me. Pain does not need to be seen to be felt. Telling me there is no problem won’t solve the problem. This is not how miracles are born. This is not how sickness works.
— Emm Roy, The First Step
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— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
— Gianna Perada Carini
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
— Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight
All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.
— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
— Walt Disney Company
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
— Mark Twain
I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.
— Bethany Griffin, Masque of the Red Death
Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?
— Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
You think I don’t know pain?” Puck shook his head at me. “Or loss? I’ve been around a lot longer than you, prince! I know what love is, and I’ve lostmy fair share, too. Just because we have a different way of handling it, doesn’t mean I don’t have scars of my own.”“Name one,” I scoffed. “Give me one instance where you haven’t—”“Meghan Chase!” Puck roared, startling me into silence. I blinked, and he sneered at me. “Yeah, your highness. I know what loss is. I’ve loved thatgirl since before she knew me. But I waited. I waited because I didn’t want to lie about who I was. I wanted her to know the truth before anything else.So I waited, and I did my job. For years, I protected her, biding my time, until the day she went into the Nevernever after her brother. And then youcame along. And I saw how she looked at you. And for the first time, I wanted to kill you as much as you wanted to kill me.
— Julie Kagawa
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.Sing, and the hills will answer;Sigh, it is lost on the air;The echoes bound to a joyful sound,But shrink from voicing care.Rejoice, and men will seek you;Grieve, and they turn and go;They want full measure of all your pleasure,But they do not need your woe.Be glad, and your friends are many;Be sad, and you lose them all,—There are none to decline your nectared wine,But alone you must drink life’s gall.Feast, and your halls are crowded;Fast, and the world goes by.Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.There is room in the halls of pleasureFor a large and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain. 
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make her a stronger person; a situation in which he watches or participates in rituals that make her feel like she is going to die. She experiences pain that is so intense that she cannot think; her head spins so fast she can't remember who she is or how she got there.All she knows is pain. All she feels is desperation. She tries to cry out for help, but soon learns that no one will listen. No matter how loud she cries, she can't stop or change what is happening. No matter what she does, the pain will not stop. Her father orders her to be tortured and tells her it is for her own good. He tells her that she needs the discipline, or that she has asked for it by her misbehavior. Betrayal is too simple a word to describe the overwhelming pain, the overwhelming loneliness and isolation this child experiences.As if the abuse during the rituals were not enough, this child experiences similar abuse at home on a daily basis. When she tries to talk about her pain, she is told that she must be crazy. "Nothing bad has happened to you;' her family tells her Each day she begins to feel more and more like she doesn't know what is real. She stops trusting her own feelings because no one else acknowledges them or hears her agony. Soon the pain becomes too great. She learns not to feel at all. This strong, lonely, desperate child learns to give up the senses that make all people feel alive. She begins to feel dead.She wishes she were dead. For her there is no way out. She soon learns there is no hope.As she grows older she gets stronger. She learns to do what she is told with the utmost compliance. She forgets everything she has ever wanted. The pain still lurks, but it's easier to pretend it's not there than to acknowledge the horrors she has buried in the deepest parts of her mind. Her relationships are overwhelmed by the power of her emotions. She reaches out for help, but never seems to find what she is looking for The pain gets worse. The loneliness sets in. When the feelings return, she is overcome with panic, pain, and desperation.She is convinced she is going to die. Yet, when she looks around her she sees nothing that should make her feel so bad. Deep inside she knows something is very, very wrong, but she doesn't remember anything. She thinks, "Maybe I am crazy.
— Margaret Smith, Ritual Abuse: What it is, Why it Happens, and How to Help
Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb.""Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
Pain was a fascinating horror
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
— Noah Cicero, The Condemned
You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
— Antonin Artaud, Lettres à Génica Athanasiou
BETRAYALNo failure in Life, whether of love or money, is ever really that simple; it usually involves a type of a shadowy betrayal, buried in a secret, mass grave of shared hopes and dreams.That universal mass grave exists in a private cemetery that most... both those suffering from the loss, but especially those committing the betrayal, refuse to acknowledge its existence.When you realize you've been deeply betrayed, fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's anger and frustration. Then disspointment and disilussionment.Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate effects and consequences of betrayal on our hearts and spirits; and on trust and respect for our fellow brothers and sisters.In writing, there are only really a few good stories to tell, and in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of the most powerful stories to tell.Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise- by trading in our integrity and failing to treat life and others in our life, with respect and dignity. That's really where the truest and the most tragic failures comes from... they come making the choice to betray another soul, and in turn, giving up a peice of your own.
— José N. Harris, Mi Vida
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
— Erich Segal, Love Story
It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
— Pat Barker
But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
— Katie Kacvinsky
Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.
— Meša Selimović
Many partners of addicts have told me they feel bad about themselves for staying in the relationship because of the betrayal they’ve experienced. They imagine that the people who know their past judge them to be stupid for staying with the person who’s caused them so much pain. I often counter this thinking, explaining that leaving may seem quick and easy because they can pretend they’re okay and the problem has disappeared. However, if you leave your relationship, you’ll be stuck with your pain and sorrow without the person you loved to help you sort it out. Why is this true? Because even though it feels as if your pain comes from your partner, it’s actually coming from inside you.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
It's easier to runReplacing this pain with something numbIt's so much easier to goThan face all this pain here all alone.
— Linkin Park
Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.
— Stephenie Meyer
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
— Fiona Apple
Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.
— Masashi Kishimoto
The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts.
— Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through – And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum – Kept beating – beating – till I thoughtMy Mind was going numb – And then I heard them lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space – began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here – And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing – then –
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upwards, and, just when you'd thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of other people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
— Anaïs Nin
I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.
— Lisa Renee Jones, Being Me
It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Your darkness is a symphonyPlayed in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in love with noiseIf they refuse to applaud youIt isn't because your music isn't beautiful It is because they have no idea how to love what they don't understandAnd that, my darling, is the most horrific flaw in this mixed up world
— Christopher Poindexter
Pain is weakness leaving the body
— Tera Lynn Childs, Oh. My. Gods.
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Sorry doesn’t mean anything! Not when you’re still with him. It’s not just that you cheated—it’s that he’s still here, and you’re still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I see you with him. I hate it that he makes you smile, and that there’s nothing I can do to stop this. I can’t think straight, and everything hurts, and nothing makes sense anymore. You’re shredding my heart with one hand and stroking his ego with the other. And it’s killing me, Faythe. You’re killing me. And it’s only going to get worse, now that everyone knows.
— Rachel Vincent, Alpha
I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint.
— Alysha Speer, Sharden
I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.
— E.L. James
What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.
— Dia Reeves, Bleeding Violet
Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
She’d felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
— Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.
— William S. Burroughs, Junky
Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.
— Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
— Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
Don't make light of any man's pain.
— Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on the beauty of the miracle that is the now. All of this is yours, yet none of it is. How could it be? Look around you. Everything is fleeting. To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.
— Rachel Brathen
This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
— H. Raven Rose, Shadow Selves: Double Happiness
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.
— William Blake
Humor was a good way to hide the pain.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
— Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it.I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.
— Anne Rice, Pandora
My heart hurts that means I’m alive.
— Kazuya Minekura, Stigma
One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.
— Mike  Norton, Just Another War Story
I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. 
— Philip Yancey
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
— Charles Frazier
Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. 
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.
— Erica O'Rourke, Torn
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
— Graham Greene
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
— Kanye West
Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good.
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass."Wow. Where have you two been all my life?"Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor."Walking hand in hand with you. Haven't you noticed?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible