- Haruki Murakami
‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.
Kazuo Ishiguro • Klara and the Sun: A novel
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
The more pain you experience now the more nostalgia you’ll experience later.