All Quotes By Tag: Pain

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

“Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.”

“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”

“Life’s pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper”

“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.”

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”

“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they’d done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back – time only moved forward – but people could change. For worse.And for better.It wasn’t easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.”

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can’t help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”

“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It’s pain, It’s pleasure, Leave no path untaken.”

“…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”