{"quotes":[{"text":"Pain is the University of Life.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["pain","pain","painful","university"],"id":12043,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"She imagined herself drowning along the tides of Sumendu Lake, down own into the depths of solemn solitude, splashing into the serenity of forever silence.","author":"Ashmita Acharya","tags":["despair","drowning","pain","painful","sadness","silence","solitude","sorrow"],"id":12864,"author_id":"Ashmita+Acharya"},{"text":"Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["excessive","intent","ownership","painful","spiritual","spiritual","ultimate"],"id":17278,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"On a second note, though, I have something to say about pain. There are lots of kinds of pain. Pain of smashing your fingers in a car door, pains of loosing a baby, pain of failing a test. But in their own little ways, these pains are all agonizing. Which is sad, and yet, happy, if you really think about it. If we never lost our car keys, or stepped in gum, or had a bad hair day, what kind of people would we be? In a word? Boring. We wouldn't be passionate; we wouldn't know it was exciting to get pregnant, or score an A on a final. So that's why, today at least, I am grateful for pain. Because it's part of what makes me the whacky, goofy, jaded, person that I am. Peace.","author":"Alysha Speer","tags":["gratitude","jaded","life","pain","painful","peace"],"id":22230,"author_id":"Alysha+Speer"},{"text":"Never expect someone to care for you or to care for your feelings and emotions, Everyone's fucking heartless, people just don't give a damn about your stupid feelings or your boring stories. People only know how to fool you around for their own benefits...","author":"Taimoor Madni","tags":["care","careful","caring","deep","emotional","feelings-of-love","love","painful","relationship","stupid"],"id":22433,"author_id":"Taimoor+Madni"},{"text":"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["anguish","appalling","appealing","atmosphere","atmospheric","calm","calmness","dead","death","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","literal","literally","loud","mysterious","mystery","noise","noiseless","onimous","pain","painful","quiet","romance","romantic","serene","silence","silent","sinister","suspense","tranquil","unbroken","yell","young-adult"],"id":23410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.","author":"Roshani Chokshi","tags":["hurt","jabs","painful"],"id":24281,"author_id":"Roshani+Chokshi"},{"text":"Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.","author":"Plinio il Giovane","tags":["friend","friendship","love","painful","tormented"],"id":24987,"author_id":"Plinio+il+Giovane"},{"text":"When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.","author":"John Bruna","tags":["life-lessons","mindfulness","opportunity","painful","personal-growth","potentials","wisdom"],"id":25249,"author_id":"John+Bruna"},{"text":"Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["agony","blade","cutting","dark","every","heart","heartache","need","needs","pain","painful","painful-love","part","sharp","sharper","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","stab"],"id":29144,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":133,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}