Quotes: Elsa Dutton

"Out here, you turn toward the pain as it tears into you, and you let it. When you do, the devil gets bored. He seeks another soul to eat. And you get to live again." 

–– Character Elsa Dutton, on 1883, episode 1.6, an American TV series,  2021.

via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, p. 5. 

Quotes: Mary Shelley

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." 

–– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), British writer 

Source: Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 3.

Quotes: Ovid

"Be patient and tough; some day all this pain will be useful to you." 

–– Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō, known in English as Ovid (43 BC -17 AD), Roman poet 

Source: Caitlin Moran. More Than a Woman. 2020

via: Sketchbook 31, 2021, p. 119.

Quotes: Alanis Morissette

"There's no way around pain. That's part of the charm of being alive." 

–– Alanis Morissette (b. 1974), Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress 

Source: Brad Wheeler. 'The Divine Ms. M.', The Globe and Mail, Saturday July 25, 2020; p.P1.

Quotes: Anne Hines

"Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are." 

–– Anne Hines, Canadian writer and minister 

Quote from Anne Hines. The Spiral Garden.