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1bffeb7 Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire. pain Jennifer Crusie
783cfd6 Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. and-the-mountains-echoed beauty cruel dreams hope khaled-hosseini pain plastic-surgeon sorrows superficial unfair unfairness-of-life world Khaled Hosseini
7fee366 One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest. pain Mary Balogh
f5e8a7f As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain. bravery courage danger faith fear pain peace peace-of-mind road walk Madeleine L'Engle
a326d1f Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. anguish beautiful-language captain-ahab pain physical-pain Herman Melville
837a3ad The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. pain Sebastian Faulks
0074c63 If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction. pain Marian Keyes
34c1630 "As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps someone with DID start a conversation with a supportive friend or family member, understanding will be increased." goal mental-health mental-illness mpd multiple-personality-disorder multiplicity normal pain piece psychiatric psychology puzzle safe safety support trauma understanding unsafe Deborah Bray Haddock
1d9d350 The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful family-contact pain reality relationships writing Monica Ali
515f804 Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. honesty invite memories memory pain pains ponder remember reminiscence summon truth Robin Hobb
4c82a0b It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain. finality grief love pain Barbara Taylor Bradford
57cd612 "Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization." -Vergere" engine fuel jacen-solo metaphor new-jedi-order new-republic pain post-return-of-the-jedi star-wars suffering the-force traitor vergere yuuzhan-vong Matthew Woodring Stover
9ff498b Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off. pain suffering Jeanette Winterson
e4e4216 The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die. life pain truth Brandon Mull
7ba0f7b Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. pain William Goldman
49b1726 For it is just this question of pain that parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin,--so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels. pain H.G. Wells
537f593 Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you. mind pain sight thinking Richard Llewellyn
c30e674 "Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your goal is a search for meaning, honor, experience, the same events may be victories or necessary steps. Then the personal matters; it's home; but you can travel in and out of it, rather than being marooned there. The leprosy specialist Paul Brand wrote, "Pain, along with its cousin touch, is distributed universally on the body, providing a sort of boundary of self," but empathy, solidarity, allegiance--the nerves that run out into the world--expand the self beyond its physical bounds." meaning pain Rebecca Solnit
3577875 Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever. loss love pain Jack Kerouac
32cde2c I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually. pain Ian McEwan
ce30c13 lys hnk shy ymknk qwlh ltj`l shkhSan m ytwqf `n lsh`wr bl'lm . ffy nSf lmrt , 'sh`r wHsb 'nny yjb 'n 'khbrhm lHqyq@ . w'n 'qwl : swf tsh`rwn lmd@ thlth@ 'shhr bshkl 'sw' mm sh`rtm bh fy Hytkm , wswf tkfHwn qdr stT`tkm , wb`d sn@ 'shhr l ykwn l'lm bdhlk lsw , wlknh l yzl yw'lm 'kthr mm tZnwn , Ht~ b`d snwt , stbqwn tjdwn 'nfskm tfkrwn blshkhS ldhy fqdtmwh , wtHznwn bsh'n dhlk , wstbqwn tftqdwnh Twl lwqt life-lessons miss novel pain Nicholas Sparks
ed97d7e True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. critical pain resistance solidarity Bell Hooks
da2cc87 The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them. pain transformation tribulations Jim Butcher
836cc5b Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. pain suffering Pat Conroy
3c38cc0 And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life. love pain Chaim Potok
aa5db94 I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain. diary love pain passion women Anaïs Nin
3851b75 ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. challenges difficulty downfall experiences life pain reality Lois Lowry
3d090be All this last day Frodo had not spoken, but had walked half-bowed, often stumbling, as if his eyes no longer saw the way before his feet. Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the growing weight of the Ring, a burden on the body and a torment to his mind. Anxiously Sam had noted how his master's left hand would often be raised as if to ward off a blow, or to screen his shrinking eyes from a dreadful Eye that sought to look in them. And sometimes his right hand would creep to his breast, clutching, and then slowly, as the will recovered mastery, it would be withdrawn. frodo-baggins j-r-r-tolkien pain ring-bearer samwise-gamgee the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king J.R.R. Tolkien
e50b8f2 "He bent over Farid and wiped some soot from his cold forehead. "Roxanne knows it," he said. "She'll tell it to you. Just go to her and... and tell her I've had to go away. Tell her I'm going to find out if the story is true." He spoke with a strange kind of hesitation, as if it were infinitely difficult to find the right words. "And remind her of my promise-- that I'll always find a way back to her, wherever I am. Will you tell her that?" dustfinger farid love meggie pain Cornelia Funke
0620f98 Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering. pain self-help suffering A.M. Homes
dceb4ae With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though it had not been such for the people who had lived there. Soldiers had found them and made the cabin trailhead to a path of exile, loss, and death. But for a while that night, it was a place that held within its walls no pain nor even a vague memory collection of pain. native-americans pain Charles Frazier
e5a5cb0 The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life. death denial effect forever itch knowledge life mutilated pain result unimaginable wound Robin Hobb
9956b6c Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. human pain pretension when-the-cynic-cries Samuel Beckett
3a71a5f Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it--that no substitute can do your thinking--that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence. evil good happiness independence john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism pain philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
1ff7150 Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain. pain present Mary Balogh
5807324 The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. marines military pain war Philip Caputo
543396a "Oh, poor baby," she said, mimicking his drawl. "Whew. You're back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me." She laughed. "They locked her back up in the loony bin." "Good, because there's only one Susie for me--the one who calls me on my crap and doesn't let me get away with jack shit. That's the Susie I need. That's the Susie I've missed coming home to over the last year." He kissed her. "And that's the Susie who's going to leave a gaping hole in my heart and my life if she doesn't give me another chance." -- love pain Marie Force
ea8387d ... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ... pain universe Dan Simmons
34fa147 I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain. pain suffering the-fountainhead Ayn Rand
0bbfd67 Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. hurt pain L.M. Montgomery
7cc6ff4 The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do. dogs human-beings pain suffering José Saramago
4b18cf4 Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong mint toothpaste. Any food with hard edges or sharp corners that could pierce or abrade the inside of her mouth: potato chips, croutons, crunchy peanut butter. Any food that was more than infinitesimally, protozoically, spicy or tangy or salty or acidic: pesto or Worcestershire sauce, wasabi or anchovies, tomato juice or movie-theater popcorn. Certain pamphlets and magazines whose paper carried a caustic wafting chemical scent she could taste as she turned the pages. Perfume. Incense. Library books. Long hours of easy conversation. The ability to lick an envelope without worrying that the glue had irritated her mouth. The knowledge that if she heard a song she liked, she could sing along to it in all her dreadful jubilant tunelessness. The faith that if she bit her tongue, she would soon feel better rather than worse. pain Kevin Brockmeier
20a783d He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord. disappointment humiliation pain power will W. Somerset Maugham
f5bc6b8 Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell! longing love pain Victor Villaseñor
b313219 What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Eve, for sorrows past, for sorrows yet to come. I put my pencil away. It was wrong to draw live pain. If there had been an artist at Bethany, it would have been wrong to intrude his chalk or charcoal on Mary Magdalene's weeping as she washed Jesus' feet. Some things were too raw for art until time dulled their sharpness. mary-magdalene pain sorrow women Susan Vreeland
092b608 Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. life-of-pi metaphor pain suffering time Yann Martel
24e9260 I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences. men-and-women pain quiet sorrow women Esmeralda Santiago
383b79b Das echte Liebesleid nistet sich an der Basis unserer Existenz ein, erwischt uns unerbittlich an unserem schwachsten Punkt, greift von da auf alles andere uber und verteilt sich unaufhaltsam uber unseren ganzen Korper und unser ganzes Leben. Wenn wir unglucklich verliebt sind, dienen unsere samtlichen Leiden und Sorgen, vom Tod des Vaters bis hin zum banalsten Missgeschick, wie zum Beispiel einem verlegten Schlussel, als neuerlicher Ausloser fur den Urschmerz, der stets bereit ist, wieder anzuschwellen. Wessen Leben durch die Liebe auf den Kopf gestellt wird, so wie meines, der meint immer, zusammen mit dem Liebesleid wurden auch alle anderen Sorgen ein Ende finden, und so ruhrt er unwillkurlich immer wieder an der Wunde in sich drinnen. lovesickness pain Orhan Pamuk
68fb8ba ...as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. 'The subject exhibited a pain response.' But not, under any circumstances, . pain scientists suffering John Brunner
0677bd8 Apparently he thought 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. happiness love pain relationship sincerity Toni Morrison
bb86857 And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp between still believing wishing worked if you wanted something hard enough and understanding the world is teeth and sharp edges. I wished. I did. I promise you with all that I have that I did. But I knew the teeth. The sharp edges. And they were bigger than wishing. I was only eleven, but I was the product of my upbringing too. Maybe that's why I was able to be the one to leave. Maybe I'd been looking for a reason and latched on to the first one that came, no matter how hard it was. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that it's easier to leave someone before they leave you. Because eventually, everyone leaves. It's inevitable. harsh-life leaving loss pain sad-quote wishing T.J. Klune
bfd4b43 He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or their habits. They could develop elaborate systems for containing pain, sometimes so successful they would remain completely unaware of the vastness of the pain they possessed. men pain Susan Minot
3890b81 "Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a bold shadow, accept, accept. What we call evil is only a groping towards good, part of the trial and error by which we move toward the perfected consciousness... God is kind? Life is good? Nature never did betray the heart that loved her? Why the reward she received for living intensely and generously and trying to die with dignity? Why the horror at the bridge her last clear sight of earth?...I do not accept, I am not reconciled. But one thing she did. She taught me the stupidity of the attempt to withdraw and be free of trouble and harm... She said, "You wondered what was in whale's milk. Now you know. Think of the force down there, just telling things to get born, just to be!" I had had no answer for her then. Now I might have one. Yes, think of it, I might say. And think how random and indiscriminate it is, think how helplessly we must submit, think how impossible it is to control or direct it. Think how often beauty and delicacy and grace are choked out by weeds. Think how endless and dubious is the progress from weed to flower. Even alive, she never convinced me with her advocacy of biological perfectionism. She never persuaded me to ignore, or look upon as merely hard pleasures, the evil that I felt in every blight and smut and pest in my garden- that I felt, for that matter, squatting like a toad on my own heart. Think of the force of life, yes, but think of the component of darkness in it. One of the things that's in whale's milk is the promise of pain and death. And so? Admitting what is so obvious, what then? Would I wipe Marion Catlin out of my unperfected consciousness if I could? Would I forgo the pleasure of her company to escape the bleakness of her loss? Would I go back to my own formula, which was twilight sleep, to evade the pain she brought with her? Not for a moment. And so even in the gnashing of my teeth, I acknowledge my conversion. It turns out to be for me as I once told her it would be for her daughter. I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow." loss pain sorrow Wallace Stegner
d4aa10e Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking--that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action--that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise--that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality--that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind--that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness. evil good happiness john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism pain philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
82ac233 Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. pain sorrow Ron Rash
99e1c45 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. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with. choose connection depart done final finish friendship leave love over pain part-ways relationship return separate sever soul wait well wish Robin Hobb
0330a94 How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth. grieve pain truth Francine Rivers
fb037ff "I would bear it for her if I could. pain philosophy wasted-time wishing Penelope Fitzgerald
fab681e Lords of fire and earth and water, Lords of moon and wind and sky, Come now to the Old Man's daughter, Come from fathers long gone by. Bring blue from a distance eye. Lords of water, earth, and fire, Lords of wind and snow and rain, Give to my heart's desire. Life as all life comes with pain, But blue will come to us again. desire earth eye fire heart lords moon pain rain sky-life snow water wind Madeleine L'Engle
c31a4a3 The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama. drama joy pain Madeleine L'Engle
25de940 I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin--if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain. death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one empathetic empathy loss pain suffer suffering twin twins Francesca Lia Block
1a3bb5e "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 recognized 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
89c3995 It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine. pain suffering George R.R. Martin
a20d496 "How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book." greif loss pain sadness Cornelia Funke
0082382 There is a distinction I am beginning to make in my living between pain and suffering. Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. When I live through pain without recognizing it self-consciously, I rob myself of the power that can come from using that pain, the power to fuel some movement beyond it. I condemn myself to reliving that pain over and over and over whenever something close triggers it. And that is suffering, a seemingly inescapable cycle. pain racism suffering Audre Lorde
90c6816 Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you'll ever have. Someone who'll make all the difference in the world. I just don't know which way it will go. I can't see it, no matter how hard I try. forshadowing love otp pain tom-x-alice wardstone-chronicles Joseph Delaney
71757ad [...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool. limit pain survivor J.R. Ward
6a056bf Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life--the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it--can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. happier-times intellectual middlemarch misery pain George Eliot
af79978 In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on. pain sovereignty-of-god George Eliot
e18714c 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. fitz fool hit hurt knowledge measure pain passage realization realize time Robin Hobb
c088d7e There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades. endurance india pain Tahir Shah
4f6c836 "The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity," said a tall, soft-eyed girl. "Love is the true condition of human life." Bedap shook his head. "No. Shev's right," he said. "Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not." pain Ursula K. Le Guin
7f412b0 Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. jokes pain Graham Greene
52eb0ce The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry. humanity pain Alexandre Dumas
8b1c54f "Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out." childhood kids pain parents work-things-out Mitch Albom
232144d I hate you. I wish you was dead. hate heart pain W. Somerset Maugham
81417b0 This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. birthing bomb dark necessary nothing obvious older pain starving suffering terrible torture vain waste wasted world John Fowles
b33a883 The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. inspirational joy memories memory pain past-and-present pleasure reality Orson Scott Card
fe16563 People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good luck. Love is when you walk into the burning building. Love is when the person who means most to you in the world is breathing through a mask and pissing in a bag. Love is when they no longer know your name. love pain self-indulgence valentines Mark Haddon
8c0d6a7 This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another. love pain Ishmael Beah
c241f04 The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in doing so metamorphoses himself into a 'living' work of art. A return to the 'real life' after a period of creativity resulted in a fall in spirits, an agony Highsmith felt acutely. She voiced this pain in the novel via Bernard's quotation of an excerpt from Derwatt's notebook: 'There is no depression for the artist except that caused by a return to the self'. artistic-life creativity depression metamorphosis negation-of-self pain real-life work-of-art Andrew Wilson
f3edfe9 "Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?" "You bet," Morrie whispered." pain Mitch Albom
fee74aa I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place. pain sad sadness Marya Hornbacher
8874cee Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother. endure ignore mom mother pain power strength Charlie Huston
9dca915 The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else. pain Drew Karpyshyn
9037fb1 I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. pain wept Anaïs Nin
092333c 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. pain power Orson Scott Card
e64e983 The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors. confusion life pain P.D. James
af26811 "Then this God does exist according to you?" "He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god." fear god pain stone terror Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0c3789a "Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why." ... Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road--and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright--and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden. ... Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another type of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of the pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare." garden-of-eden heroes innocence innocence-lost life-choices madness pain strength James Baldwin
fc04845 When you look at pain as material it makes all the difference in the world. I thought, the pain that is too big to be eased by its use as material would be a pain I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) even imagine. francesca-lia-block pain violet-claire Francesca Lia Block
4e182f2 Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it. Life, he says, doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be so anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best as we can. anxious bad-day bad-moment cope dealing family fear feeling good-day good-moment pain John Corey Whaley
5e95749 "On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible: pain stigma suffering William Styron
d176e8e And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Yor great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love pain self-growth Jonathan Safran Foer
17200c6 "He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope." knowledge pain wisdom Lloyd Alexander
1c3e4d9 Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream. change-of-scene changes-in-life grief grit heartache life-after-death loss-of-love new old pain past rebirth Joseph Conrad
81b645c We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse heartache heartbreak holistic-health holistic-rehab holistic-therapy holistic-treatment holistic-treatment-center life live memories non-12-step pain passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss sadness substance-abuse survival Chris Prentiss
4576147 I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front. front honest pain Francine Rivers
5258f89 For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume. pain screams torture Ian Fleming
4f976fd Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. pain wounds Jodi Picoult
0211ad4 We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take. intuition pain prayer Anne Lamott
cd30614 I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other's is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with one's own pain is to put one foot after the other. Yet I was never willing to suffer with others, and when my own pain hit me, I crawled into hole. Sympathy I have failed in, stoicism I have barely passed. But I have made straight A's in irony- that curse, that evasion, that armor, that way of staying safe while seeming wise. One thing I have learned hard, if indeed I have learned it now: it is a reduction of our humanity to hide from pain, our own or other's. to hide from anything. That was Marian's text. Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones. humanity life pain suffering Wallace Stegner
9673a85 Shaken by emotional storms, I realized that choosing to feel guilt, however painful, somehow seemed to offer reassurance that such events did not happen at random.... If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it. I was. To begin to release the weight of guilt, I had to let go of whatever illusion of control it pretended to offer, and acknowledge that pain and death are as natural as birth, woven inseparably into our human nature. death grief guilt loss mourning nature pain suffering Elaine Pagels
a5cf42d In a sense I want the same thing that my grandfather wanted, that people should not suffer. Yet I am not like him. He remade himself so that he could live for eternity. Yet he never defeated the eternal enemy - no, not the cyborgs or the robots. The enemy is fear, simple fear. Grandfather was always afraid of suffering. I am not afraid. I want something more for people. I want them to be happy, and I believe our suffering as a race can eventually bring us to a place of great wonder. For all I have suffered since I came back in time, I have been happy to be alive. pain Christopher Pike
f79a051 She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess. pain sobbing Jodi Picoult
31e6501 A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist. pain sadism secret-society Tahir Shah
d34eb94 Das wirkliche Leben, meint er, sei ja so anders... Jedenfalls das seine, denkt er: da erkennt man keinen klaren Ablauf und keinen roten Faden, da zerrinnt es einfach, ohne Abschnitt und ohne Tat, die Leidenschaft zerrinnt in eine Stimmung, und auch die Entschlusse sind wie Sand, der leise durch die Finger rinnt, immer wieder nimmt man eine neue Handvoll, und wenn man sie aufmacht, ist wieder nichts darin geblieben, man ist verzweifelt, und auch das zerrinnt, wie die Hoffnung und der Jubel und der Schmerz und alles, wie das ganze Leben. life pain schmerz Max Frisch
08d9a93 It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone. growing-up knowledge life-lessons maturity old-age pain parenthood parenting wisdom J. Courtney Sullivan
8875a4d There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent. pain pleasure pride Jack Vance
3aa5e4a ... she claimed it's a sign of God's mercy that He won't let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can't bear and won't let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back. pain unbearable Charles Frazier
8d7aa3a ... a dor de um coracao partido nunca vai embora, apenas fica anestesiada. love pain portugues portuguese Julia Quinn
6dc8194 the gravity of wound to fist abuse-survivors pain rape relationships Karen Russell
6086dc3 The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? heartache hoplessness pain world Arthur Golden
945589d There always seemed to be a better way, except when it came to people. Once broken, people couldn't be repaired. pain trauma Michael J. Sullivan
bdbdf53 She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. heartbreak loss love melancholy pain sorrow suffering William Goldman
064d25d "You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke." identity pain pensiveness violence Robert Ludlum
7f4c281 No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain pain Matthew Woodring Stover
afbc0ee Stradanie i bol' vsegda obiazatel'ny dlia shirokogo soznaniia i glubokogo serdtsa. Istinno velikie liudi, mne kazhetsia, dolzhny oshchushchat' na svete velikuiu grust'. dostoyevsky great-people heart pain suffering suffering-of-humanity Fyodor Dostoyevsky
481860f When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope. avoidance break burn crash deny disappointment enemy fall fear hope hurt ignore look-away pain time weight Robin Hobb
f10aa77 To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in this or that case and difficult to define in general terms -- some careless bright and harsh trifle that had grazed a stretch of raw flesh. pain Vladimir Nabokov
39cd249 I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they said. For one long second, it felt like the world was holding them close. life pain Aimee Bender
ed0e752 "Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying to be a soft and sturdy home in which real things can land. These are the irritations that rub into a pearl. So we can talk for a while but then we must listen, the way rocks listen to the sea. And we can churn at all that goes wrong but then we must lay all distractions down and water every living seed. And yes, on nights like tonight I too feel along. But seldom do I face it squarely enough to see that it's a door into the endless berath that has no breather, optimism pain poetry Mark Nepo
8dcc7b5 "Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science." pain science science-fiction John Scalzi
97c866a Where would we be without our painful childhoods? depression humor humorous pain past psychology sad sad-but-true trauma Rebecca McNutt
eac294d I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense. feelings love pain young youth Raymond E. Feist
04497b5 ... But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved. love pain self-awareness Mitch Albom
cb623f8 He didn't remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn't as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried... and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth's wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive... but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind. alive death fear green life memory pain suffering worry Rebecca McNutt
07a2ba4 We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let's inhale it, let's digest it, let's process it into fuel. feminism pain power Miriam Toews
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. depression destiny dream dreams earning endtime family fantasy feminism fiction-food-for-though forgiveness freedom friends friendship future grief heart history humanity-humour imagination inspirational-quotes intelligence-is-attractive joy leadership life-and-living-life-philosophy life-quotes literature living loss love-quotes magic-spirit marriage meditation-men mind money motivation motivational motivational-quotes music nature pain passion-peace patience patience-johnson pentecost people politics positive-thinking power prayer psychology purpose quote quotes reading reality-relationship repentance sadness self-help self-improvement society soul spiritual strength time trust-war wisdom-quotes women words work world Patience Johnson
8314e4c Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it. pain psychology the-painted-veil W. Somerset Maugham
4ec4571 I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else. divorce kids marriage mother pain plain-truth thoughts Mitch Albom
ab762bd Insanlari asla kucumsemeyin, kendilerinin olmayan aciyi izlerken, kotu haber verirken, televizyonda bombalarin dususunu seyrederken, telefonun obur ucundaki bastirilmis hickiriklari dinlerken, aldiklari keyfi de asla kucumsemeyin. Aci tek basina sadece Aci'dir. Fakat, Aci + Mesafe = eglence, rontgencilik, insani ilgi, gercekci sinema, keyifli bir kahkaha, anlayisli bir tebessum, kalkik bir kas veya gizlenmis nefret olabilir. fun pain tragicomic Zadie Smith
3483372 She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony. earth mountains nature pain sorrow Elizabeth Gaskell
2201402 And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood. blood pain Emma Donoghue
749f671 Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore. mind pain scream James S.A. Corey
c508891 The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain. christianity eden pain serpent snake suffering William Goldman
fa0a8bb I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you're going to have to tell someone who loves you that you don't want to be with them anymore. Terror, and relief; relief and terror, so intermingled that they feel like the same thought. pain relationships Michael Marshall Smith
316a08c "One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves. I looked at each thought, at each unit of sorrow, and I acknowledged its existence and felt (without trying to protect myself from it) its horrible pain. And then I would tell that sorrow, "It's OK. I love you. I accept you. Come into my heart now. It's over."..." life pain sadness Elizabeth Gilbert
018e9b3 Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out. pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering Matthew Woodring Stover
72673a4 And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid. pain sorrow stupid Robin Hobb
1bc06f5 There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. dishonor find forget honor move-on pain peace truth Robin Hobb
0ef26c6 Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as time goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we still expect that somehow tomorrow will all come back into balance and that we will go on. At some point, the exquisite balance has tipped, and despite all our flailing efforts, we begin the slow fall from the body that maintains itself to the body that struggles, nails clawing, to cling to what it used to be. balance belief believe body death decline effort fight health life pain reality strive struggle time tomorrow truth Robin Hobb
ca4fb56 "Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out." Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams. "Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letting all the pain go out of your body." pain pregnancy resilience Victor Villaseñor
8fdcf0b When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain. cormac-mc-carthy pain young youth Cormac McCarthy
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