Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and….

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs an….

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property….

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared..

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense..

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I can….

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Quest….

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a viol….

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us..

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of se….

Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement..

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient….

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, b….

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less sai….

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing..

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your ….

I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. The….

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with….

I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I c….

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn..

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most bless….