“Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

May Sarton

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“He who wears tite boots will hav too acknowledge the corn.”

Josh Billings

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“Narcotics cannot still the Tooth
That nibbles at the soul.—”

Emily Dickinson

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“Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain.”

John Keats

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“Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.”

Tobias Wolff

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“The commander’s words relieve their stricken hearts: ‘My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now, we all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us an end to this as well. You’ve threaded the rocks resounding with Scylla’s howling rabid dogs, and taken the brunt of the Cyclops’ boulders, too. Call up your courage again. Dismiss your grief and fear. A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.'”

Virgil

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“When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out the alphabet in sign language. I AM DEAF, said the card. You were supposed to give the man some money in exchange.
        I have thought of that card ever since, during difficult times, mine or someone else’s: surely when tragedy has struck you dumb, you should be given a stack of cards that explain it for you.”

Elizabeth McCracken

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“Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?”

John Keats

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“Wisdom isn’t cheap, and we pay for it with pain.”

Jonah Lehrer

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