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9885054 "Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. creation creative-process driving-forces hardship pain writing Cormac McCarthy
89f9df6 Pain isn't a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain -- physical, emotional, and otherwise -- is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly--it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them. For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good. pain Jim Butcher
f3ea055 And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. pain Arthur Golden
08041ac For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other's throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting--an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment. asher-lev hasidic hasidic-judaism jew jewish judaism pain paint painting suffering torment Chaim Potok
8dd1e6f Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. pain tears Charles Dickens
46f5bce Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one grief grief-and-loss grief-and-loss-quotes grieve mortality pain pain-goes-away sadness truth truth-of-life V.C. Andrews
6dc6e91 Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. pain power Jim Butcher
123970c Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. pain C.G. Jung
48eba9c It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust. friends morganville-vampires myrnin pain trust Rachel Caine
909a261 [God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory. glory-of-god god pain usefulness Charles R. Swindoll
d9b68dc How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. depression pain shadow Gillian Flynn
c853c96 The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame. pain F. Scott Fitzgerald
2ceb452 The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. hurt pain panic Robert Ludlum
70057ca Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. healing pain Rebecca Solnit
3c4cc99 From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. center coexist exist existence find-a-way haruki-murakam intense japan japanese life murakami pain painful purpose the-wind-up-bird-chronicle Haruki Murakami
083c929 I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back. nostalgia pain Margaret Mitchell
d7cc381 The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart. carpathians pain romance Christine Feehan
7f34a47 Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them. dream-hunter guardian lydia pain Sherrilyn Kenyon
4658cfa I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing. numb pain Stephenie Meyer
47e38f2 There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. ender-wiggin helplessness pain peter-wiggin power will-to-power Orson Scott Card
b8db76b Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift. He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had thought himself an incurable cynic. He was not, though. He was only someone whose heart and mind, and very soul, had been battered and bruised. It was still - and always - safe to give since there was a certain deal of control to be exerted over giving. Taking, or allowing oneself to receive, was an altogether more risky business. For receiving meant opening up the heart again. Perhaps to rejection. Or disillusionment. Or pain. Or even heart break. It was all terribly risky. And all terribly necessary. And of course, there was the whole issue of trust... heart love-give pain receive trust Mary Balogh
36a6e21 People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. happiness happy joy pain relief suffering Ayn Rand
7df3fb8 This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. agape-love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war conflict-resolution faith fear grief gun-laws gun-violence hope love nonviolent-conflict-resolution pain peace peace-movement peacemaking police-reform police-shootings russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love syrian-civil-war tragedy unconditional-love violence war world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
804df13 Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever! life pain sadness Harriet Beecher Stowe
49d0b3c No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain. hope pain Ruth Ozeki
28b5c58 The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause. loose love pain Krista Ritchie
2046a2a He wondered how far his legs would carry him on their own - how long before his brain took over them and began punishing them, making them work past any sane limit, to keep a bullet from crashing into its own bony cradle. endurance pain Richard Bachman
bd17aeb I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown. kissing pain Laurie Halse Anderson
e292378 Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. eternity free-will maturity melancholy pain reconciliation the-keys-to-december time Roger Zelazny
e69b79b If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. love pain sorrow William Shakespeare
36e0296 Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever. pain time Graham Greene
3bd0214 Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness. depression memories pain Orhan Pamuk
db171e7 But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. life pain sorrow Emma Forrest
57f8d7e Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrodinger's cat inside a box you can never ever open. hope loss pain uncertainty David Mitchell
f5ae23f The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. choose comprehension desire farewell fate fitz follow fool hurt knowledge leave left pain part-ways realize return seek separate sincere sorrow soul understanding wait wish Robin Hobb
dfcecdc "He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars. The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. "You're . . . ," he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. "Such a pain," he concluded. "What?" I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one of Fang's hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination. Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang's arms around me now, sliding under my wings, his hands flat against my back. It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him. It was a total disaster. Gasping, I pulled back. "I, uh--," I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking him over, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket." -- best-friends brb-dying confusion feelings friendship funny holding-hands jealousy kiss lol love night otp pain pals weird wings James Patterson
5b6b6e6 Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. life pain Anne Lamott
7473ce2 After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering? pain suffering Nancy Farmer
a6c1a3f What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. life loss love pain sadness Ron Rash
58c74ff Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. avoid pain touc Mary Balogh
9bc686b The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. life pain Mary Balogh
bafc6c5 "And then a silver hare, a boar, and a fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione's heads: The dementors fell back before the creatures' approach. Three more people had arrived out of the darkness to stand beside them, their wands outstretched, continuing to cast their Patronuses: Luna, Ernie, and Seamus. "That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..." "Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked. "We're all still here," she whispered, "we're still fighting. Come on, now..." There was a silver spark, then a wavering light, and then, with the greatest effort it had ever cost him, the stag burst from the end of Harry's wand." elder-wand harry-potter pain J.K. Rowling
4f05541 Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like I'm myself again. pain Ryū Murakami
6c5c989 "Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -"And?" And it makes you vulnerable." monsters pain sensitive vulnerable Jim Butcher
ff1b79a They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. grief leaving light loss morning pain pale talk windows Raymond Carver
05272dd Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! pain Madeleine L'Engle
393a7d7 Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. idiot pain William S. Burroughs
05ced26 But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design. life pain suffering unhappiness W. Somerset Maugham
cec78c9 It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had. heartbreak love love-loss pain Emma Forrest
350638a "Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake pain Federico García Lorca
b47a2c8 Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the dead care? pain margaret atwood
30ad77b I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever.... bonnie clyde contemporary favorite favorite-books forever infinity letgo lines love mustread one pain quotes romance stay Amy Harmon
c846367 As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship of a God is a demoralizing humiliation. As long as there is one mistake in the universe; as long as one wrong is permitted to exist; as long as there is hatred and antagonism among mankind, the existence of a God is a moral impossibility. said: 'Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. earth hatred impossibility ingersoll injustice justice mankind mistake morality pain robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll sorrow suffering universe wrong Joseph Lewis
d4f094c "Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown. -- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After" from the anthology " humility michelle-tea pain sorrow thea-hillman Clint Catalyst Michelle Tea Thea Hillman
edf548c It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. interesting pain Melissa de la Cruz
fed5e8a This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe. lost love pain suffering Paulo Coelho
26bed7c These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality. pain war Ian McEwan
23d4ad0 Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that. love pain Haruki Murakami
c46d174 "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
48ec3b0 Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. mercutio pain William Shakespeare
d7fa272 I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going. alchoholism pain sobriety Lawrence Block
85578fa Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. living pain suffering Thomas Hardy
16cdc3d it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience. depressed depression health mental-illness pain sufferer sympathy torment understanding William Styron
2285a7f Art--the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. meaning meaning-of-life pain reality Lawrence Durrell
e0a8e8d how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken. love missing-someone pain people relationships sadness unbearable Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34ee79a This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. hurt leprosy loss pain suffering Stephen R. Donaldson
78b640e Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself. pain Joanne Harris
7c9b3c2 It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. pain value Alain de Botton
e85ef76 l'lm w'lwn lkhyb@ wlkab@ l twjd ltHznn wltjrdn mn lqym@ wlkrm@, wnm wjdt ltzydn nDjan wSfan growing-up pain survival Hermann Hesse
b79bf4d To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. pain pity Herman Melville
39ddd62 His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there. migraine pain Ian Fleming
1a83871 [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. life-and-living pain problems scarlett-o-hara Margaret Mitchell
e1d3ba1 You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache. love mystery pain painful sadness suffer Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e1e6c48 Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. illness pain Tom Hodgkinson
e7f08e0 Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. drugs medication pain sadness Colson Whitehead
a913409 What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. ignorance knowledge learning lies loss pain philosophy philosophy-of-life Margaret Atwood
01c0494 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. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. happiness intellectual pain Ursula K. Le Guin
a23076a So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood? crying pain tears Charlotte Brontë
422f761 What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it? hope love pain Andre Dubus
93953c2 By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling... But a world without feeling is a world without pain. imagination pain peace real-world Daniel Keyes
34167bf Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to cry description good goodness hurt innocence pain people-will-hurt-you sad vulnerable Ray Bradbury
bb2c587 "Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form." depression elusive existence gloom illness incomprehensible intellect mood pain self William Styron
5fb8ad6 Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight? fighting love pain Tamora Pierce
5959d28 "Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS. "What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door. "You can take some over the counter ibuprofen," he suggested. "But I wouldn't take more than nine a day." I choked. Nine a day? I'd been popping forty. Nine a day? Like hell. I couldn't even go to the bathroom on my own, I hadn't slept in three weeks, and my normally sunny cheery disposition had turned into that of a very rabid dog. If I didn't get good drugs and get them now, it was straight to Shooter's World and then Walgreens pharmacy for me. "I don't think you understand," I explained. "I can't go to work. I have spent the last four days with my mother who is addicted to QVC, watching jewelry shows, doll shows and make-up shows. I almost ordered a beef-jerky maker! Give me something, or I'm going to use your calf muscles to make the first batch!" Without further ado, he hastily scribbled out a prescription for some codeine and was gone. I was happy. My mother, however, had lost the ability to speak." back-pain bedside-manner daughter doctor-patient-relationship doctors excruciating family-relation listening-skills mother pain prescriptions threats Laurie Notaro
07d12e1 "Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once," Jason said." pain princess Brandon Mull
04d01f6 In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure... artist creation creator faith grace grace-and-favor hope memories memory pain Madeleine L'Engle
4c26ef5 But why all these questions? Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering. Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love. pain suffering Paulo Coelho
161005f It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt. life pain Sherrilyn Kenyon
4c2ad3a Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy. joy pain scripture Anonymous
8920eb9 The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending. pain Georgette Heyer
41dbdc1 "I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy and then a desperate desire for the cave. He will get lonely there eventually and come back." "To me?" He doesn't pause. "To someone new." "And I'll have to watch another girl?" "You will have to, but you will also know what lies ahead for that poor girl." heartbreakers love-loss pain Emma Forrest
cf06068 In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass -but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind. heart magnolias may pain trembling Haruki Murakami
b51a7dd While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know's there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. hurt laughing laughter pain Ken Kesey
07bf556 I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck. hurt love pain self-mutilation Christopher Moore
aa4f800 "Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it--she--is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?" love ocd pain Audrey Niffenegger
64fd232 Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken. compassion empathy gratitude ministry pain priesthood-of-all-believers Henri J.M. Nouwen
dd6cf8e If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die. fucking pain Kathy Acker
f0c72a7 Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. heaven pain Paulo Coelho
5a81150 As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it. dissociative-identity-disorder mental mental-health mental-illness mpd multiple-personality-disorder multiplicity normal pain psychiatric psychology student trauma undergraduate Deborah Bray Haddock
36e6c69 If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. life love pain Roger Zelazny
e5fe81a The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic pain reality Edith Wharton
8b0fc5e I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. pain H.G. Wells
956c48f and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown. death hazel-grace pain sickness John Green
2597296 Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain? pain Stephenie Meyer
5a33d11 All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you. mental pain suffering V.C. Andrews
05d11b2 "So I added in all the pains I'd learned. Cooking blunders I'd had to eat anyways. Equipment and property constantly breaking down, needing repairs and attention. Tax insanity, and rushing around trying to hack a path through a jungle of numbers. Late bills. Unpleasant jobs that gave you horribly aching feet. Odd looks from people who didn't know you, when something less than utterly normal happened. The occasional night when the loneliness ached so badly that it made you weep. The occasional gathering during with you wanted to escape to your empty apartment so badly that you were willing to go out of the bathroom window. Muscle pulls and aches you never had when you were younger, the annoyance as the price of gas kept going up to some ridiculous degree, the irritation with unruly neighbors, brainless media personalities, and various politicians who all seemed to fall on a spectrum somewhere between the extremes of "crook" and "moron." You know. Life." pain Jim Butcher
805e1f7 If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain. hear laugh pain Christine Feehan
8f95dbe Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming. love-loss pain Emma Forrest
8226b6c Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many people were just in pain, and by acting out, they were only trying to protect themselves from being hurt more. pain raison-d-être Sherrilyn Kenyon
ac81ce0 Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth. pain words Emma Donoghue
6d4a6aa This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain. dissonance harmony inductive-leap meaning pain John Steinbeck
f4bb574 The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him? pain rape violence David Mitchell
19cdc45 She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. love pain truth Jodi Picoult
38e08e0 Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. challenges endurance life pain persistence strength suffering Alexandre Dumas
cab9223 Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned. depression pain Christopher Pike
64bfbe7 We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think? cold pain winter Craig Thompson
e9006de "Noli me tangere, noli me legere, isolation latin loneliness loss pain self-reliance solitude Mark Z. Danielewski
235b1bc Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears? hope love pain tears Anne Brontë
eb82e10 As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing. confrontation discussion healing-shame honesty hurting hurting-heart love pain responsibility self-love wounded woundedness wounds wounds-to-the-heart bell hooks
7e07208 lm ywjd lHb lyj`ln s`d, bl 'n '`tqd 'n lHb wjd lybyn ln md~ qwtn `l~ lm`n@ wlHtml pain strength Hermann Hesse
537177f People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well. life love pain relationships Emma Forrest
56e04f2 It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial. love-loss pain Emma Forrest
344a82a It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it. pain youth Geraldine Brooks
2576656 Tell me, Nana, If for example we had been a love couple, Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness? Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden? I wans't intending to monopolizing you I just wanted you to need me. loneliness love nana pain sadness Ai yazawa
eb28b10 It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots. doctors god illness medical-establishment pain Craig Ferguson
d2c2a6e The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state. love pain soul sublime suffering Victor Hugo
66871a7 Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about. inspirational life-and-living life-lessons motivational pain sadness thoughts James Clavell
0a8410f I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. dreams emptiness heart hope illusion lifeless pain sadness sensation soulless wounds Fyodor Dostoyevsky
f842eb9 Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partner who is hurting often finds that their mate is unwilling to 'hear' the pain. Women often tell me that they feel emotionally beaten down when their partners refuse to listen or talk. When women communicate from a place of pain, it is often characterized as 'nagging.' Sometimes women hear repeatedly that their partners are 'sick of listening to this shit.' Both cases undermine self-esteem. Those of us who were wounded in childhood often were shamed and humiliated when we expressed hurt. It is emotionally devastating when the partners we have chosen will not listen. Usually, partners who are unable to respond compassionately when hearing us speak our pain, whether they understand it or not, are unable to listen because that expressed hurt triggers their own feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. Many men never want to feel helpless or vulnerable. They will, at times, choose to silence a partner with violence rather than witness emotional vulnerability. When a couple can identify this dynamic, they can work on the issue of caring, listening to each other's pain by engaging in short conversations at appropriate times (i.e., it's useless to try and speak your pain to someone who is bone weary, irritable, reoccupied, etc.). Setting a time when both individuals come together to engage in compassionate listening enhances communication and connection. When we are committed to doing the work of love we listen even when it hurts. communication emotional-abuse listening listening-skills listening-to-others love love-quotes pain relationships vulnerability vulnerability-quotes vulnerable bell hooks
dd5009a He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts. death introspection life pain Hermann Hesse
00b158e Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile. fragile fragility heavy pain weakness George Saunders
eb9dd4f I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. fate pain Charlotte Brontë
60dbbd1 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between those precious petals is a special gift - the one of a fragrance, pure and sweet. When you hold a rose, you see the thorns along the stem, and you frown because those thorns can bring you pain and cause you to bleed. I see the gift. You see the tragedy. More and more I fear that one of these days someone will hand me a rose and all I will see are thorns. Talk about tragedy. difference fear fragrance pain poetry rose tragedy Lisa Schroeder
c4fb77c He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place. cold depression devastation disappointment emotion empty numb pain peace sadness ship sorrow storm tragedy way woman Robin Hobb
6f7d11d Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish? empathy joy life pain sorrow Azar Nafisi
12d688e Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already. love pain Jack Kerouac
6a3ff49 She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed with pain, astounded that the human body could feel so much and not die of it. But slowly, cell by painful cell, she began to mend. There came a time when it was no longer her whole body that burned with pain but only her heart. And then there came a time when even her heart was able, for a time at least, to feel other emotions besides grief. grief healing pain physical-pain suffering Diane Setterfield
abd668a "It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now." love-loss pain Emma Forrest
578bdcc Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you? pain Libba Bray
0d00676 We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment. healing love oneness pain Jeanette Winterson
e036a9a "And she knew for the first time that someone can wire your skin in a single evening, and that love arrives not by accumulating to a moment, like a drop of water focused on the tip of a branch - it is not the moment of bringing your whole life to another - but rather, it is everything you leave behind. At that moment. Even that night, the night he touched one inch of her in the dark, how simply Avery seemed to accept the facts - that they were on the edge of lifelong happiness and, therefore, inescapable sorrow. It was as if, long ago, a part of him had broken off inside, and now finally, he recognised the dangerous fragment that had been floating in his system, causing him intermittent pain over the years. As if he could now say of that ache: "Ah. It was you." pain Anne Michaels
d138372 Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. beginnings-and-endings endings pain regret Robin Hobb
2b29eae In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move. awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness Robin Hobb
f5912f1 ymkn lwrq@ 'w rysh@ 'n tjtrH l`jy'b , ftshtfy lalm , wtHqq l'Hlm w t`yd l'ml lmfqwd pain writing Paulo Coelho
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