Tag: pain

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....

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

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something....

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a...

Dante laughed. “No cold soup, no goat cheese. I’ll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse.””And for you it’s no food at all. No sleep. And no tunnels.””I’m low maintenance.””Is that what you are? Because I’ve been trying to figure...

There’s a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there’s no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive....

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...

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is....

Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse....

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves....