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“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

Life Inspirational Sometimes Pain Deals Sadness Share Loneliness Sad Overcoming Being Alone Leave Me Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Sound Morning Sadness Broken Stillness Being Broken

Book:Freedom: A Novel

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”

Heart Pain Vision Sun Sadness Cups Warrior Tea Eastern Cups Of Tea Samsara

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”

“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.”

Feels Might Pain Felt Sadness Injustice Dues Cried Foreheads Loving Someone Unfairness

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”

Knows Might Pain Order Difficult Christ Walks Grief Know How Path Sadness Bears Sorrow Burden Shoulders Mortals Lifts Als Compassionate Anguish Behalf Difficult Times Poignant Valiant Lds

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”

Should Pain Remember Sadness Source Sorrow Peculiar Unfair

Book:A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”

Pain Saws Sadness Fine Mouths Wine Rounds Fine Wine Like Fine Wine

Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.”

Feels Littles Able Pain Form Hurt Powerful Emotion Sadness Crazy Like You Going Crazy

Book:The Edge of Never

Source: The Edge of Never

“The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't last long. But... anger or sadness are different. They leave an undelible mark. Even after the wound heals... you can never forget the pain completely.”

Humans Long Different Soul Feelings Pain Lasts Moving Forget Kindness Sadness Mark Wounds Heal Shakes Never Forget Human Soul Forget The Pain

Author:Fuyumi Soryo

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.”

Men Pain Order Dies Poverty Sadness Sad Suicide Brave Coward Brave Man Disagreeable

Author:Aristotle

“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.”

Pain Grief Sadness Sad Calmness

Author:Ovid

“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.”

“God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God”

Giving Looks Helping Pain Names Sleep Answers Saws Heard Sadness Bears Needed Breaths Help Me Unconditional Love Rapper Unconditional

Author:Tupac Shakur

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”

“Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.”

“Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”

Source: Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words

“It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.”

Feels Feelings Pain Wish Growth Sadness Share Return Higher Musician Philosopher Painter Faculty Formulas Ignoble

Book:George Eliot's Works

Source: George Eliot's Works

“Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.”

“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”

Children Eye Pain Greater Sadness Youth Sad Mortals

Book:Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker

Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker

“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()”

People Littles Long Pain Language Sadness Understood Boxes Traps

Author:Grant Morrison

“Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.”

Pain Sadness Drug Mouths

Author:Colson Whitehead

“Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.”

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Book:Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Source: Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.”

Ifs World Way Feels May Has Beens Pain Fire Sadness Strange Sad Spread Enormous Smoke Over You Riddle

Author:Daniel Handler

“Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It's okay. Accompany it - breathe into it - and after a while, you'll feel the anger or fear or sadness lose it's urgency and power. Allow God to tenderly embrace you in your pain. And then, at the right time, you can let go.”

Feels Pain Loses Rooms Emotion Sadness Judging Letting Go Negative Okay Embrace Breathe Criticize Right Time Urgency Accompany Negative Emotions

Author:Bo Sanchez

“Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.”

Littles Pain Song Lost Gone Sadness Tears Rain Lost Love Popular Song Days Gone By

Author:Robert Plant

“Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.”

Littles Body Would Be Pain Felt Boys Growing Violence Sadness Dad Safe Mum Domestic Violence Always Believe Little Boys Luke Family Violence

Author:Rosie Batty

“Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.”

People Feels Wells Mean Self Sometimes Pain Together Knowing Sadness Share Consequence Sorry Debt Holes Pity Pulse Self Pity Ripple Misdeeds

Author:Craig Silvey

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”

Source: The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment

“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”

Source: Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

“There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.”

“Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.”

Feels Pain Individual Pleasure Animal Sadness Intelligent Excitement Farms Resentment

Author:Jane Goodall

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

People Knows Want Humans Helping Pain Common Grief Behinds Steps Sadness Share Achievement Stranger Human Experience Common Denominator Lack Of Love

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.”

Heart Pain Sadness My Heart Drunk Ache Numbness Drowsy Heart Ache Aches And Pains Hemlock My Heart Aches

Author:John Keats

“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”

Feels Writing Moments Pain Lost Cities Sadness Example Building Painting Waste Decades Remedy Building Up

Author:Umberto Eco

“My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.”

Way Pain Left Parent Acting Sadness Humour Divorce My Way Parents Divorce

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.”

Giving Pain Poetry Sadness Moon Rain Madness New Moon

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.”

“"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."”

Ifs Giving Said Feelings Earth Pain Lasts Hate Passion Love Is Alive Sadness Taught Understood Embrace Lovely Warrior Beloved Joyful Tenderness Shelter One Love Recess Don Juan Juan

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.”

Pain Sadness Bully Chilly

Author:David Bowie

“Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.”

Knows Feels Pain Sadness Fool Harm Do You Know Cocaine Dope

Author:John Lennon

“I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.”

Pain Hell Sadness Mines Rage

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I haven't got time for the pain.”

Pain Sadness Havens

Author:Carly Simon

“I wanna outrace the speed of pain.”

Pain Sadness Speed

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Pain Sadness Shame Feel Better No Pain

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.”

Feels Pain Pleasure Sadness

Author:Gloria Estefan

“You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

Pain Study Sadness Streets Praying Lovers Waste Summer Rain Crosses Rose Vain Savior These Streets

Author:Bruce Springsteen