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Dave Eggers Quotes about Pain

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You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Real, Personal Things
Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.344, Vintage

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Spit, Minutes
Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Color, Wings

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Views, Silence
Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.362, Vintage

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Eye, Boys
Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Symbolism, Disagreeable
Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

Dave Eggers
Pain, Book, Boys
Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

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