The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than….

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain..

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble..

I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scr….

There have been many times in my life where I got opportunities that I never thought would be the things that I needed, so I'm always saying, "I want….

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new..

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain..

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive..

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand betwee….

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own..

In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing som….

Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it apart. St….

I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It….

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine….

Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important tha….

Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A….

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of othe….

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, ….

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to sal….

my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waitin….

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may ….