„One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.“

— Helen Keller

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„I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„All wishes are not idle, nor in vainfulfilment we devise — for pain is pain,not for itself to be desired, but ill;or else to strive or to subdue the willalike were graceless; and of Evil thisalone is deadly certain: Evil is.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root canal at a time; boat builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.“
— Stephen King
„Don't make light of any man's pain.“
— Patricia Briggs