It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist,wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!!

One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.

Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.

Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.

Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human