“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.” ImportantPainDealsUnbearableFluidStatic Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.” LongEndsPainLastsMovingUsedGrowsAttentionPovertySunToo MuchShrinksUnbearableDaylightExposingDormantSqualor Author:Gabrielle Roy
“memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.” FirstsSeemsPainMemoriesGriefCurseUnbearableTalismans Author:Gail Caldwell