Quote from Sophocles
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Quote from Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems
I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
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Quote from T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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.
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Quote from C.L. Cagan
I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.
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Quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
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Quote from William Nicholson, Shadowlands
To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
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Quote from Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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Quote from Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you’re jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?
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