pain - quotes

Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson, 1830-1886

was an US poet

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
into his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.

Frank(lin) (Patrick) Herbert(, Jr.), 1920-1986

was an US science fiction novelist

A human being can stand any amout of pain.

( “Dune” (novel), 1965 )

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, 1896-1940

was an US novelist

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

( “Tender Is the Night”, 1934 )

James Baldwin, 1924-1987

was an US author

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.