Lois McMaster Bujold Pain Quotations

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?