„One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.“

— Louis Zamperini

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„This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.“
— T.S. Eliot
„I find now, swallowing one teaspoonof pain, that it drops downwardto the past where it mixeswith last year’s cupfuland downward into a decade’s quartand downward into a lifetime’s ocean.I alternate treading waterand deadman’s float.“
— Anne Sexton
„For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.“
— Ayn Rand
„For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.“
— Emil M. Cioran