pain

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197ca7d	"Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."	cancer dying-mother emotion greif lonliness loss mother pain sadness	Annette Curtis Klause
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
dc2d495	How much did she remember? I wondered, afire with humiliation yet unable to tear my eyes from her. It wasn't the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death. There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on end, I would happily have thrown myself in front of a car to make it stop.	pain	Donna Tartt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.	intensity pain passion religion saints visionaries	Jeanette Winterson
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
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
48f8b4d	Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.	life loneliness pain	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.	cry dandelion feel flower life live loneliness pain sad safe salvation save soul test winter yugoslavia болка вятър глухарче душа живот изпитания плач самота спасение страх	Ivo Andrić
fd4f39c	Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.	god pain	Robert Hellenga
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
182a528	The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.	pain surprise	Robert Ferrigno
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
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
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
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.
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

197ca7d

"Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."

cancer dying-mother emotion greif lonliness loss mother pain sadness

Annette Curtis Klause

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

dc2d495

How much did she remember? I wondered, afire with humiliation yet unable to tear my eyes from her. It wasn't the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death. There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on end, I would happily have thrown myself in front of a car to make it stop.

pain

Donna Tartt

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

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

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"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

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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

72673a4

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

pain sorrow stupid

Robin Hobb

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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

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

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

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

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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

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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.

intensity pain passion religion saints visionaries

Jeanette Winterson

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

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"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

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Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli.

life loneliness pain

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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.

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

Ivo Andrić

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

god pain

Robert Hellenga

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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

182a528

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

pain surprise

Robert Ferrigno

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

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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

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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

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.

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