pain

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
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 pain nature sorrow mountains	Elizabeth Gaskell
01ecae3	"Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition."	pain life forgetting	Michael Pollan
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.	pain blood	Emma Donoghue
4598683	Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start.	pain photophobia	Michael Cunningham
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.	pain suffering fear death life alive green worry memory	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.	pain feelings youth love young	Raymond E. Feist
6a1b213	"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,	pain life-lessons	Ursula K. Le Guin
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.	pain truth find move-on peace honor forget dishonor	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.	struggle time pain reality death life truth tomorrow strive balance body believe belief health decline effort fight	Robin Hobb
1640b15	The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.	pain suffering	Ursula K. Le Guin
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.	pain youth cormac-mc-carthy young	Cormac McCarthy
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.	pain feminism power	Miriam Toews
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."..."	pain sadness life	Elizabeth Gilbert
48f8b4d	Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.	loneliness pain life	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
fd4f39c	Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.	pain god	Robert Hellenga
1d75b0f	As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.	pain	Jacqueline Carey
e1fd7ce	In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.	pain passion religion visionaries saints intensity	Jeanette Winterson
50d8301	Se non c'e piu qualcosa in cui credere, allora non c'e piu un motivo per restare.	roxy-kyle pain italian-quotes	Emma Hart
cffc146	Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.	pain life wisdom	Jim Butcher
1787c69	I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school-- a woman you'd loved and lost-- danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time.	pain hope misery	Dennis Lehane
53fd5d2	When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.	pain prayer honesty god confess confession hurt honest	Randy Alcorn
2c797e5	"With battle-weary arms, Sheridan slugged his way across the luminous waves sending light-filled droplets splashing into the air like Fourth of July sparklers. Stumbling onto the lake's rocky banks, he clawed desperately at the animal skin suit, yanking at the fastenings and peeling back the suffocating shroud in a fitful temper tantrum. He collapsed onto the glitter washed shore, his chest heaving, his forehead pulsing with pumped up veins.	pain suffering meaning purpose	Phillip White
41af884	"That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain"."	pain personality	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2b5eb29	He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.	mourning pain loss suffering sorrow love heartache	Michael Cunningham
a144562	she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. No wonder they gave them out free to the soliders. Lucky Strikes.	pain grief smoking	Colum McCann
90e34b3	"Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope."	time pain hope hard-day hopeful room	Libba Bray
56047cc	A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it as quarried light.	pain suffering redemption	John O'Donohue
37acd31	What is pain to a man? A privilege!	pain privilege	James Clavell
e648632	At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt--all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for another to get what he or she wants.	pain passion	Susan Vreeland
ea3d59a	Stranno e, che vsichki greshki sv'rshvat ednakvo, che vinagi gi povtariame i prod'lzhavame s novi nadezhdi. Tsiala noshch khapem ustni, kh'ltsame v'v v'zglavnitsata s bezpomoshchen gniav i tv'rdo se zaklevame da ostanem samotni, a shchom s'mne, podnasiame dushata si kato nezhen balon ot ts'fnalo glukharche na nasreshchnite vetrove na zhivota i te go roniat i raznasiat. Ala koito spasi samo edno malko pukhche i go vnese na zavet, toi e spasil tsialata si dusha. Tova e gorchiva rabota, no koito ne obr'shcha nezhnoto tsvete na dushata si k'm vetrovete na izpitaniiata, dori tsialoto da go spasi i da go prenese dokrai, toi ne mozhe da pochuvstva, che izobshcho niakoga go e imal.	winter loneliness pain live life dandelion болка вятър глухарче изпитания плач самота спасение страх душа живот yugoslavia safe feel salvation save cry test flower sad soul	Ivo Andrić
182a528	The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.	pain surprise	Robert Ferrigno
3ccb82f	A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.	pain life mario-puzo omerta	Mario Puzo
4180e0c	The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.	words pain life	Elizabeth Gilbert
34ac4f8	And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.	pain life	Mike Carey
1c1a2cf	Yalnizca kisa bir sure, bir an icin bu aci dizlerimin bagini oyle cozdu ki, nefessiz, cansiz ve sanki olecekmis gibi bir duyguyla o banka yigilip kaldim. Ama dedigim gibi butun acilar korkaktir, yasama karsi duyulan asiri arzu karsisinda aci geriler; cunku yasama arzusu, dusuncelerimizde var olan olum arzusundan cok daha guclu sekilde bedenimizin her zerresinde mevcuttur.	pain suffering life	Stefan Zweig

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 pain nature sorrow mountains

Elizabeth Gaskell

01ecae3

"Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition."

pain life forgetting

Michael Pollan

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.

pain blood

Emma Donoghue

4598683

Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start.

pain photophobia

Michael Cunningham

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.

pain suffering fear death life alive green worry memory

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.

pain feelings youth love young

Raymond E. Feist

6a1b213

"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,

pain life-lessons

Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

pain truth find move-on peace honor forget dishonor

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.

struggle time pain reality death life truth tomorrow strive balance body believe belief health decline effort fight

Robin Hobb

1640b15

The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.

pain suffering

Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

pain youth cormac-mc-carthy young

Cormac McCarthy

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.

pain feminism power

Miriam Toews

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."..."

pain sadness life

Elizabeth Gilbert

48f8b4d

Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.

loneliness pain life

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

fd4f39c

Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

pain god

Robert Hellenga

1d75b0f

As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.

pain

Jacqueline Carey

e1fd7ce

In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.

pain passion religion visionaries saints intensity

Jeanette Winterson

50d8301

Se non c'e piu qualcosa in cui credere, allora non c'e piu un motivo per restare.

roxy-kyle pain italian-quotes

Emma Hart

cffc146

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

pain life wisdom

Jim Butcher

1787c69

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school-- a woman you'd loved and lost-- danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time.

pain hope misery

Dennis Lehane

53fd5d2

When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.

pain prayer honesty god confess confession hurt honest

Randy Alcorn

2c797e5

"With battle-weary arms, Sheridan slugged his way across the luminous waves sending light-filled droplets splashing into the air like Fourth of July sparklers. Stumbling onto the lake's rocky banks, he clawed desperately at the animal skin suit, yanking at the fastenings and peeling back the suffocating shroud in a fitful temper tantrum. He collapsed onto the glitter washed shore, his chest heaving, his forehead pulsing with pumped up veins.

pain suffering meaning purpose

Phillip White

41af884

"That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain"."

pain personality

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2b5eb29

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

mourning pain loss suffering sorrow love heartache

Michael Cunningham

a144562

she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. No wonder they gave them out free to the soliders. Lucky Strikes.

pain grief smoking

Colum McCann

90e34b3

"Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope."

time pain hope hard-day hopeful room

Libba Bray

56047cc

A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it as quarried light.

pain suffering redemption

John O'Donohue

37acd31

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

pain privilege

James Clavell

e648632

At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt--all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for another to get what he or she wants.

pain passion

Susan Vreeland

ea3d59a

Stranno e, che vsichki greshki sv'rshvat ednakvo, che vinagi gi povtariame i prod'lzhavame s novi nadezhdi. Tsiala noshch khapem ustni, kh'ltsame v'v v'zglavnitsata s bezpomoshchen gniav i tv'rdo se zaklevame da ostanem samotni, a shchom s'mne, podnasiame dushata si kato nezhen balon ot ts'fnalo glukharche na nasreshchnite vetrove na zhivota i te go roniat i raznasiat. Ala koito spasi samo edno malko pukhche i go vnese na zavet, toi e spasil tsialata si dusha. Tova e gorchiva rabota, no koito ne obr'shcha nezhnoto tsvete na dushata si k'm vetrovete na izpitaniiata, dori tsialoto da go spasi i da go prenese dokrai, toi ne mozhe da pochuvstva, che izobshcho niakoga go e imal.

winter loneliness pain live life dandelion болка вятър глухарче изпитания плач самота спасение страх душа живот yugoslavia safe feel salvation save cry test flower sad soul

Ivo Andrić

182a528

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

pain surprise

Robert Ferrigno

3ccb82f

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

pain life mario-puzo omerta

Mario Puzo

4180e0c

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.

words pain life

Elizabeth Gilbert

34ac4f8

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

pain life

Mike Carey

1c1a2cf

Yalnizca kisa bir sure, bir an icin bu aci dizlerimin bagini oyle cozdu ki, nefessiz, cansiz ve sanki olecekmis gibi bir duyguyla o banka yigilip kaldim. Ama dedigim gibi butun acilar korkaktir, yasama karsi duyulan asiri arzu karsisinda aci geriler; cunku yasama arzusu, dusuncelerimizde var olan olum arzusundan cok daha guclu sekilde bedenimizin her zerresinde mevcuttur.

pain suffering life

Stefan Zweig