Living With Pain Quotes

“Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.”
― Shannon Alder

“You can't avoid hurt. Your only choice is to live through it.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“A scream starts in my gut—I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair. I don’t remember passing out. David says I hit my head on the edge of the table on my way down. The nurse calls my mom because I need stitches. The doctor stares into the back of my eyes with a bright light. Can she read the thoughts hidden there? If she can, what will she do? Call the cops? Send me to the nuthouse? Do I want her to? I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won’t. I’ll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Why then do our answers about love only survive in pictures? Why can a voice hijack so many passengers
but never quietly land?”
― K. Eltinaé, The Moral Judgement of Butterflies