Quotes About Pain

There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.

Jade helped Az into the BMW. Well, helped, shoved, same thing. The guy still wasn't talking. With the bullets in him, maybe he was just in too much pain to talk right then.

He felt like she was breaking him.

Pain will pull you down. It will break you. And when you lose everything else, it will be the only thing that never lets you go. It's a bitch I don't like. Better to not let anyone get close, huh? Better to not let the pain inside. Better to put up your wall and block everyone else from touching your heart.

Oh, angel, you need to be careful with me." She'd spent centuries being careful. What had that gotten her? Betrayal. Pain. This new half-life. "Because I could just eat you up…

This house…she hated this house and all of the ghosts and pain that were trapped within its walls. Trapped, just as she was.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.

But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.

But he finally saw how pain caused one of two things: A reverence for life. Or killing. Both grew from the same seed.

You should have spoken up sooner." her grandmother answered. "No need to bear pain unless you have to.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Of all things broken and lost, porcelain troubles me most.

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.

When it hurts we return to the banks of certain rivers. — Czeslaw Milosz, from "I Sleep A Lot," The Collected Poems 1931— 1987 . (The Ecco Press; First Edition edition 1988)

Es posible que no haya otra memoria que la memoria de las heridas».

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Children are ruthless because they have not learned pity, they are inconsiderate because they have never experienced pain. When Philip had written the letter he had not seen his father receiving it, Philip had just sat down and written exactly what he was feeling with absolute honesty...

hatred is a terrible thing. Hatred hurts the hater far more than its object.