“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”
“I will not feed your hunger, instead, I'll bite the pain.”
“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.I sob, I sob.”
“Once we love, we cannot revoke it,' she said. 'We can only glory in what it brings -- pain as well as joy, grief as well as hope.”
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”