"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."

Pain, Escape, Reality, Suffering

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"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

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"When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!"

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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

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"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

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"I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Still, pain hurts. And most of us find it difficult, to say the least, to find gratitude in our hearts for the worst things in life."

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