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050b7fb 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. pain peace scar sweetness Chuck Palahniuk
92ed0b2 I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. infidelity love pain relationships life moving-on past Haruki Murakami
760ef5a "I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it." death dumbledore harry-potter hurt life pain J.K. Rowling
5056619 Turn your wounds into wisdom. experience inspirational pain wisdom wounds Oprah Winfrey
a375751 Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. pain William Goldman
329befd If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. hope love pain suffering waiting Paulo Coelho
2a5e3e4 The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. memories pain share Lois Lowry
25d7312 There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. pain trauma Laurell K. Hamilton
8848564 Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. failure inspiration inspirational pain quitting cancer Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
a723322 Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. pain perfect truthful George R.R. Martin
f06d8df The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. pain relationships self Ernest Hemingway
2057d01 "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -- Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow -- sorrow for the lost Lenore -- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -- Nameless here for evermore. And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me -- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -- This it is, and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"-- here I opened wide the door; -- Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" -- Merely this, and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice: Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -- Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -- 'Tis the wind and nothing more." Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning-- little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door -- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore." pain Edgar Allan Poe
f76b713 Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. heal inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learning let-go letting-go letting-go-of-the-past life life-quotes pain spiritual time Roy T. Bennett
c89e75e You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. harry-potter hurt pain J.K. Rowling
9e0bf92 "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken." pain C.S. Lewis
01184ff Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. beauty experience flight flying freedom growing growth heal healing hurt hurting inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons living living-life pain painful wind wings wisdom wisdom-in-life wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
22523b5 I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. hate pain James Baldwin
11318c9 Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. life pain pleasure Neil Gaiman
900bdef But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. pain Margaret Atwood
ea3f4a2 The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. inspirational love pain Jodi Picoult
30beca4 The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. joy pain Charles Dickens
aec3d72 Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. choice dance identity individuality life love name pain pleasure sleep treasure Neil Gaiman
583e7d4 Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other hope inspirational pain Veronica Roth
8d1206e I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. heart love pain Yann Martel
5ee5ffc I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned inspirational pain philosophy Harlan Ellison
3f393d9 I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult. pain philosophy Harlan Ellison
417067f "Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens. And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. harry-dresden life pain wisdom Jim Butcher
1d394c2 The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. pain Graham Greene
91df9c7 But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. love pain sadness Veronica Roth
4723f5e Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart. pain Alexandre Dumas
c750923 Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. pain reality Anaïs Nin
4f4308b It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying. love pain Rob Sheffield
69a3337 I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. hurt pain trust Veronica Roth
36fadd4 The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. artists evil happiness pain Ursula K. LeGuin
d2fa2c4 Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. comfort contrast freedom meals pain Neil Gaiman
9cdc163 She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. longing love pain sorrow unrequited-love T.H. White
bdbf6a4 Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me pain Haruki Murakami
d485cb9 Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? god human hurt love pain Jacqueline Carey
6d9f897 If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. endurance pain Sarah J. Maas
7605254 When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. fantasy life living pain suffering Alexandre Dumas
eb58cce To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub. pain sleep suicide William Shakespeare
964e194 "Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?" "I do indeed, sir." "Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat--your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me." pain relationship sickness Charlotte Brontë
824af4b "We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. fear freedom life lonliness love pain poetry Maya Angelou
4f14999 "my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" facade love motherhood pain Charles Bukowski
98a7811 We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. life pain renunciation Paulo Coelho
b40ec48 Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. love pain scars true true-love Jonathan Tropper
1275fb0 Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. dancing life love name neil-gaiman pain personality pleasure the-graveyard-book treasure Neil Gaiman
9b8a1b1 ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. memory pain pleasure Jane Austen
42948e4 We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. pain C.S. Lewis
64b1a38 Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. pain suffering withstand James Frey
e24ecbc If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. get heart pain still suffer want Dan Millman
d5cf384 I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. identity pain Orson Scott Card
561a3c3 And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! love pain wuthering-heights Emily Brontë
87218e3 So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. feel happiness happy life little pain strong taste F. Scott Fitzgerald
95364b6 If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back. hurting pain Holly Black
820dd37 If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end. devil fates god pain James Frey
7c7ca66 Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse. loss love pain Kelley Armstrong
0d9fab8 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. faith happiness hope life living love misery pain positivity stoicism T.H. White
82859c5 There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. pain suffering James Baldwin
217f705 Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. grief loss love missing-someone pain sadness Veronica Roth
275cbb1 For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. friendship pain Virginia Woolf
62e7d97 Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. pain P.D. James
f29d6c8 Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. pain pointless sacrifice space Chuck Palahniuk
dccda48 A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else. adaptation anger attitude bullied bully bullying confidence confidence-and-attitude encouragement growth inspirational introvert loneliness motivational outcast pain youth Criss Jami
e1b6c3c Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. divergent emotion insurgent pain tears Veronica Roth
b4ba920 Excruciating agony makes me cranky. pain Brandon Mull
832d5a1 And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. healing inspirational pain Jack Canfield
586d5f6 No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. pain Cormac McCarthy
1f49c81 One of the challenges with pain--physical or psychic--is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can't be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language. pain John Green
324236c I would like to be able to breathe-- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. albert-camus camus heart love pain Albert Camus
2caeb25 The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. force hurt loss love pain practice risk saftey security Bell Hooks
cda0bd3 "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin heartbreak pain robin Emily Dickinson
64dd414 To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane. insanity pain Charles Bukowski
63be8a0 There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. life light loneliness pain sorrow Hubert Selby Jr.
91247c4 "Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'." detachment emotions grief life love pain truth vulnerability Mitch Albom
0b4e779 Humor was a good way to hide the pain. pain Rick Riordan
e3d6528 Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road. inspirational pain Wendelin Van Draanen
7c987db Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. pain scar Jodi Picoult
cd1e130 Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. experience feel pain P.D. James
7671f25 My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. love pain Francesca Lia Block
6b6f604 Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. love pain redemption scars suffering bell hooks
1e61dd4 I have a new name for pain. The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. pain saphira Christopher Paolini
a1596c2 He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. pain Cormac McCarthy
1b0e784 The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. awareness depressed depression mental-health mental-illness pain prevention psychology suffering suicide William Styron
c813aa9 Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive. pain Robert Jordan
bc6bda3 But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain they remain. pain remain Haruki Murakami
1f3b45b The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. growth life pain Joseph Campbell
5aa0350 Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed. depression growth pain personality spirituality Alice Walker
af5309d Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. life pain Jim Butcher
3e62bb6 Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now pain world Sue Monk Kidd
920a2fa It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... cancer pain sad sorrow sorrowful John Green
5d8f460 One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. pain William Shakespeare
bbe5f99 There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was -Vishous jr-ward pain vishous J.R. Ward
3b4d916 Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. life nature pain suffering C.S. Lewis
c3f2151 Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really--just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body. john-green pain turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
2addab8 "That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more." love pain Ray Bradbury
b9e3d96 And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world. pain Anne Rice
cc54f4e I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race Wrecked, solitary, here - And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing - then - depression elegy emily-dickinson funeral pain Emily Dickinson
4f1e03b "We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the "intolerable compliment." Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life--the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child--he will take endless trouble--and would doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less." masterpiece pain C.S. Lewis
15a5aa8 Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. heartache hurt love memory pain worth Jeanette Winterson
8347750 "But somebody else had spoken Snape's name, quite softly. "Severus . . ." The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading. Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face. "Severus . . . please . . ." Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. " " A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape's wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the chest. Harry's scream of horror never left him; silent and unmoving, he was forced to watch as Dumbledore was blasted into the air. For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight." death dumbledore killing-curse misery pain sad severus-snape J.K. Rowling
2469dc5 Don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don't know how to be without you. heartache jace-wayland love pain Cassandra Clare
0054288 But he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. pain Ken Kesey
9b78ef5 Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? pain pleaseure Robin Hobb
72f0065 We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. growth improvement invention pain H.G. Wells
c6ac7a1 She'd felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes. nico-di-angelo pain reyna Rick Riordan
d7f8fef You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. pain silence Chaim Potok
ef002ad No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. pain George Eliot
420a1b5 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. dichotomy happiness pain stoicism T.H. White
afc84b0 Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life. junk opium pain plant seed William S. Burroughs
3f4d2b8 Nico's anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He'd been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn't appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun. nico-di-angelo pain psychopathy Rick Riordan
58ab366 Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live; pain Mary Shelley
63f8585 You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed. pain Jodi Picoult
588cfa1 "It sounded old. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn't deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. He'd told Guitar that he didn't "deserve" his family's dependence, hatred, or whatever. That he didn't even "deserve" to hear all the misery and mutual accusations his parents unloaded on him. Nor did he "deserve" Hagar's vengeance. But why shouldn't his parents tell him their personal problems? If not him, then who? And if a stranger could try to kill him, surely Hagar, who knew him and whom he'd thrown away like a wad of chewing gum after the flavor was gone--she had a right to try to kill him too. Apparently he though he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be...what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness." deserve family happiness maturity pain responsibility sorrow Toni Morrison
27a1827 It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel, skins thicker, reactions sharper, instincts more developed. But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one. Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears... not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes. pain young-love Nick Hornby
bc0ac88 How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart. pain sad Charles Dickens
f625b8c The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart heart pain Jacqueline Carey
25f40ed Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. pain sorrow Nathaniel Hawthorne
f13718b We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they? pain Sharon Kay Penman
3e60fa3 "You aren't old enough to have such regrets." "Pain doesn't respect age, my lady." pain regrets Sherrilyn Kenyon
98eca82 Being in love with your best friend is problematic. awesome-quotes bandaids best-friend-love best-friend-quotes best-friends bitterness davin fate first-aid friend friend-quotes friends friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love friendship-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship hurt i-m-in-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend j-m-richards life-quotes longing love-issues love-problems mazing-quotes pain quotes-about-life real-friends real-friendship so-true tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol J.M. Richards
8f93c26 Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss. jonathan-christopher-morgenstern losing page-252 pain part-1 regaining sebastian-morgenstern Cassandra Clare
a7e9070 She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo... If this was only a portion of Nico's pain... how could he bear it? pain past torment Rick Riordan
b492e42 Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. pain past spiritual-growth Marianne Williamson
881d699 One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. eye infection pain romeo-and-juliet William Shakespeare
4adff3f Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. illusion pain tess-of-the-d-urbervilles thomas-hardy Thomas Hardy
9de20ba Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. pain Isaac Asimov
b8c41cb God will never disappoint us... If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. ...To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true. goodness pain suffering trust Elisabeth Elliot
f8d92d6 "It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness." love pain shadow-puppets Orson Scott Card
7f4d4af There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable. journey joy pain R.A. Salvatore
a026c01 Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love. pain Alain de Botton
8ec2426 If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. pain romance John Green
e66fbdc The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart - a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather. love nico-di-angelo pain Rick Riordan
1701523 The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock. anguish compulsion compulsive hopeless memory obsession pain unrequited-love Donna Tartt
1607266 Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island. mourning pain sharing Neil Gaiman
bd47584 It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory pain Christopher Hitchens
2ce4963 Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. pain violence Haruki Murakami
4aaced0 As much as I cared about him, I wasn't a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend. arguments awesome-quotes bandaids best-friend-love best-friend-quotes best-friends bitterness fate first-aid friend friend-quotes friends friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love friendship-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship hurt ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend j-m-richards life-quotes longing mazing-quotes pain quotes-about-life real-friends real-friendship so-true tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol J.M. Richards
c520c5c Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens. frienship hurt pain piper-mclean Rick Riordan
32be300 When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt. hurt pain voice women Terry Tempest Williams
64c1aa4 The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness... hard-times harry-potter j-k-rowling life negativity pain wisdom Brandi L. Bates
59a2de5 I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for. hurt lost-love love pain Libba Bray
c20f5b7 Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer. frodo gandalf j-r-r-tolkien pain return-of-the-king the-lord-of-the-rings J.R.R. Tolkien
07f42f2 There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. experience pain Dan Simmons
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