R. K. Milholland

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

Sarah McLachlan

"It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard."

- Sarah McLachlan, 'I Will Remember You'

Khalil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Carolina Liar

"So soon you will learn to forget
Bad times, the rules and regrets
One day they won't reach out for you."

- Carolina Liar, 'Drown'

Black Elk

"It is in the darkness of their eyes, that men get lost."

- Black Elk, 'Black Elk Speaks'

Charlotte Bronte

"It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury."

- Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"

Horace

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."

- Horace, lyric poet and satirist

Ellen DeGeneres

"Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most."

- Ellen DeGeneres, comedian

J. K. Rowling

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Charles Dickens

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Ingrid Michaelson

"Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come in again
Swing open your chest and let it in."

- Ingrid Michaelson, 'Everybody'

Charlie Chaplin

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin, actor, director and composer

Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

– Maya Angelou, poet and author

Adele

"Sometimes it lasts, in love, but sometimes it hurts instead."

- Adele, 'Someone Like You'

Sue Monk Kidd

"It's something everybody wants - for someone to see that hurt done to them and set it down like it matters."

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd

Emily Dickinson

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?"

- 'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' by Emily Dickinson

The Fray

"We never know what's right without pain."

- The Fray, 'All At Once'

William Shakespeare

"And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (Sonnet 90)

Emily Dickinson

"Heavenly Hurt, it gives us -
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are -"

- 'There's a certain Slant of light' by Emily Dickinson

Sophocles

"Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last."

- 'Oedipus the King' by Sophocles