In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

Don't take my pain away, leave my pain right there, you could even put more pain inside my pain and it wouldn't bother me.

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist’s suit collection.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.