In Pain Quotes

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.