The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, t….

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain..

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping….

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain..

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream..

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away..

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain..

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear..

Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the ….

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same..

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your hear….

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us different….

Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life..

It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not s….

I don't call myself a writer..

We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of ….

Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't ….

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it ou….

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken..

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical..

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is t….