CURATED COLLECTION

Healing From Pain

Healing is not linear and it doesn't announce itself — on finding your way back through the dark.

35 quotes found

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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His memory lives within me, a constant companion through every trial.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Healing is not linear. I keep relearning this.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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We didn’t know we were survivors. We just survived.

—Tommy OrangeAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I will go on loving, even if love means tears and sorrow.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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There's no point in weeping. Grief won't change anything.

—Mikhail SholokhovNovelist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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My culture is my armor and my undoing.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Healing is an ongoing process of remembering and integrating fractured pieces of self.

—Gloria AnzaldúaTheorist & Writer

Contemporary ERA • North America

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We have on this earth what makes life worth living.

—Mahmoud DarwishPoet

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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In a city of refugees, every day was a lesson in how to live with impermanence.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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Time does not heal all. It only teaches us to live with the incurable.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We must weave threads of memory so the past does not vanish.

—Marjorie AgosínPoet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The light of hope always shines even in the darkest corners of despair.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Let no one uproot the Pumpkin.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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To survive trauma means to remember trauma.

—Jenny ZhangPoet & Writer

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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Home is where the heart breaks and is rebuilt again and again.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Though grief shadows my path, my spirit finds strength to endure each dawn.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.

—Frida KahloPainter

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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I write because I have to. I write because I have to make sense of my world.

—Edwidge DanticatNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Caribbean

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