"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."

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"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."

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"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

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

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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

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"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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

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

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

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

"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."

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

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

"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."

Explore more quotes by Sherman Alexie

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer."

"What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said."

"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."

"I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird."

"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

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