pain

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565b66b	But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions--and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives--then I plead guilty . . . And if we're talking about strong feelings that will never come again, I suppose it's possible to be nostalgic about remembered pain as well as remembered pleasure. And that opens up the field, doesn't it?	julian-barnes memory nostalgia pain pleasure the-sense-of-an-ending	Julian Barnes
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
31f0f02	He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.	intimate iris-murdoch pain tension the-message-to-the-planet	Iris Murdoch
d7dcbf3	We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.	chris-prentiss drug-war headaches healing holistic-treatment pain passages-malibu pax-prentiss rehab remedies root-of-addiction war-on-drugs	Chris Prentiss
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."	forgetting life pain	Michael Pollan
4aecd94	And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. I had acquired a dimension of suffering which would poison and devour my whole being, as far as I could see, forever.	pain soul suffering the-black-prince unending unendurable unrequited-love unspoken	Iris Murdoch
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
97c10a7	Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.	god life-lessons pain simple-truths symbolism	Brandi L. Bates
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,	life-lessons pain	Ursula K. Le Guin
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
72673a4	And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.	pain sorrow stupid	Robin Hobb
905e339	While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.	hope jesus love pain suffering	Timothy J. Keller
15e41d0	Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.	empathy pain self-centeredness suffering sympathy	Madeleine L'Engle
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
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.	life pain	Mike Carey
3ccb82f	A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.	life mario-puzo omerta pain	Mario Puzo
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.	intensity pain passion religion saints visionaries	Jeanette Winterson
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.	meaning pain purpose suffering	Phillip White
48f8b4d	Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.	life loneliness pain	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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.	life pain words	Elizabeth Gilbert
fd4f39c	Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.	god pain	Robert Hellenga
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.	hope misery pain	Dennis Lehane
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."	hard-day hope hopeful pain room time	Libba Bray
50d8301	Se non c'e piu qualcosa in cui credere, allora non c'e piu un motivo per restare.	italian-quotes pain roxy-kyle	Emma Hart
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
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.	confess confession god honest honesty hurt pain prayer	Randy Alcorn
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.	heartache loss love mourning pain sorrow suffering	Michael Cunningham
37acd31	What is pain to a man? A privilege!	pain privilege	James Clavell
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 redemption suffering	John O'Donohue
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.	life pain wisdom	Jim Butcher
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.
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.	болка cry dandelion душа feel flower глухарче изпитания life live loneliness pain плач sad safe salvation самота save soul спасение страх test вятър winter yugoslavia живот	Ivo Andrić
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.	grief pain smoking	Colum McCann
182a528	The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.	pain surprise	Robert Ferrigno
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.	life pain suffering	Stefan Zweig
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

565b66b

But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions--and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives--then I plead guilty . . . And if we're talking about strong feelings that will never come again, I suppose it's possible to be nostalgic about remembered pain as well as remembered pleasure. And that opens up the field, doesn't it?

julian-barnes memory nostalgia pain pleasure the-sense-of-an-ending

Julian Barnes

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

31f0f02

He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.

intimate iris-murdoch pain tension the-message-to-the-planet

Iris Murdoch

d7dcbf3

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

chris-prentiss drug-war headaches healing holistic-treatment pain passages-malibu pax-prentiss rehab remedies root-of-addiction war-on-drugs

Chris Prentiss

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."

forgetting life pain

Michael Pollan

4aecd94

And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. I had acquired a dimension of suffering which would poison and devour my whole being, as far as I could see, forever.

pain soul suffering the-black-prince unending unendurable unrequited-love unspoken

Iris Murdoch

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

97c10a7

Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.

god life-lessons pain simple-truths symbolism

Brandi L. Bates

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,

life-lessons pain

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

72673a4

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

pain sorrow stupid

Robin Hobb

905e339

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

hope jesus love pain suffering

Timothy J. Keller

15e41d0

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

empathy pain self-centeredness suffering sympathy

Madeleine L'Engle

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

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.

life pain

Mike Carey

3ccb82f

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

life mario-puzo omerta pain

Mario Puzo

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.

intensity pain passion religion saints visionaries

Jeanette Winterson

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.

meaning pain purpose suffering

Phillip White

48f8b4d

Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.

life loneliness pain

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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.

life pain words

Elizabeth Gilbert

fd4f39c

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

god pain

Robert Hellenga

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.

hope misery pain

Dennis Lehane

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."

hard-day hope hopeful pain room time

Libba Bray

50d8301

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

italian-quotes pain roxy-kyle

Emma Hart

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

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.

confess confession god honest honesty hurt pain prayer

Randy Alcorn

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.

heartache loss love mourning pain sorrow suffering

Michael Cunningham

37acd31

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

pain privilege

James Clavell

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 redemption suffering

John O'Donohue

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.

life pain wisdom

Jim Butcher

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.

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.

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

Ivo Andrić

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.

grief pain smoking

Colum McCann

182a528

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

pain surprise

Robert Ferrigno

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.

life pain suffering

Stefan Zweig

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