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Quotes About Pain

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
History is a bath of blood.
~ William James
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
~ Mardy Grothe
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.
~ Glen Duncan
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
~ Samuel Johnson
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
~ Anne Rice
Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
~ James Elroy Flecker
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.
~ Avril Lavigne
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
~ Peter Dinklage
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
~ Gordon Strachan
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
~ Eudora Welty
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.
~ Gayle Forman
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
~ John Thorn
It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.
~ Suzanne Collins
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
~ P. C. Cast
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
~ Amanda Lindhout
There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.
~ Mira Grant
So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.
~ Mariah Carey
Home is where the heartache is.
~ Kathy Lette
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
~ Bertrand Russell
The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.
~ Shawn Stockman