I lost everyone

I lost everyone I loved.
And then they locked me away.
With no where to hide from the pain.

~Baby Doll, Sucker Punch

It has been said

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone."

~Rose Kennedy

When a good man

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

~Euripides

Of all the animals

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

~Mark Twain

In order for the light

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

~Sir Francis Bacon

The healthy man

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

~Carl Jung

The basis of shame

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

~Milan Kundera

O Nanak

O Nanak, it is absurd to ask to be spared from pain by begging for comfort.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

There is no

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

~Carl Jung

The word "happiness"

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

~Carl Jung

We cannot

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

~Alan Watts

Criticism

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

~Winston Churchill

If you are pained

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

The purpose of therapy

"The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites."

-- James Hollis

Be patient and strong

Be patient and strong; for someday this pain will be useful to you.

~ Ovid

It is always

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

~Marquis De Sade

I've already told you

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

~Marquis De Sade

There are moments

There are moments, dark moments, monents of pain and hurt and aches and bruises. There are dark nights but they are part of the whole game. Without the dark night you cannot have a bright morning, and without the hurt, without the pain, you cannot enjoy either. They go together. Only dead people go beyond pain and then they go beyond pleasure too.

~Osho

Your pain is

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

~Kahlil Gibran

Brother

Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.

~Rumi