Pain

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."

"What a sad business, being funny."

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."

"But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

"She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer."

"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

"Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts, when you haven’t mastered them."

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."