#erin

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ↗

— James Frey

#pain #suffering #withstand #suffering

There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#suffering #suffering

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#schizophrenia #suffering

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#suffering

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. ↗

— Anne Rice

#suffering

Warriors should suffer their pain silently. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#hunter #hurt #pain #stoicism #suffer

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#political #profiteering #treason #military

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist. ↗

— Noah Cicero

#pain #screaming #suffering #terrorism

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#magic #supernatural

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

#catherine #or-the-bower #books