"The wages of pedantry is pain."

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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Pain, Sensitivity, Destruction, Identity, Self

"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Pain, Illness, Suffering, Humor

"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Pain, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Pain, Truth, Power, Today, Inspirational

"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Pain, Sadness, Meaning, Life

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Tears, Meaning, Emotion

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Pain, Memory, Past, Identity

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Pain, Will

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Suffering, Healing, Emotion

"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Pain, Struggle, Identity, Self

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