#Pain

"Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental."

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult."

"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."

"Please,"he says. "I'm begging you to stop."I still. "I can't stomach your pain,"he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please,"he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong.""I'm sorry-""Don't be sorry, either,"he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more."

"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"

"Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it."

"Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."

"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."

"We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations."

"In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn."

"Laughter is the antidote to existential pain"

"Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'."

"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."

"And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?"

"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

"Suffering teaches joy."