#pain

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? ↗

— John Milton

#pain #suffering #inspirational

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#love

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#inspirational #love #pain #inspirational

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#defeat #inspirational #learn #man #motivational

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#on-the-american-dead-in-spain #the-spanish-earth #men

For every moment I smile, I've endured a thousand frowns ↗

— Brian A. Brown

#inspirational #pain #real-life-struggle #inspirational

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#definition #doing #external #external world #freedom

If you never love you never hurt If you never hurt you've never lived. Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.  ↗

— Sophia Nam

#inspirational #life #love #pain #inspirational

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#limits #pain #strength #inspirational