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Quotes About Pain

Broken" from the band Life-house fills the room, because Chris doesn't know how personal it is to me. I'm falling apart. I'm barely breathing. I'm barely holding on to you. This song, this place with the words, and I am raw
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Hemicrania continua is a type of daily headache characterized by persistent pain on one side of the head punctuated by episodes of sharp pain. The painful flare-ups are often accompanied by other symptoms, including watery eyes, runny nose, eyelid swelling, or constriction of the pupils. Remarkably, most patients with this type of headache get better when treated with an inexpensive medication that has been around for years: indomethacin.
~ Lisa Sanders
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
~ Lisa See
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.
~ Lisa See
My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
~ Lisa See
I can feel sympathy for his loss and his pain without affecting who I am and my opposition to all that Viktor Kain is and stands for. When we lose our empathy for others and allow our enmity to spiral downward and twist into mindless hate, we are no better than the Viktor Kains of the world. Compassion is our strength, not our weakness." She paused. "And it is a treasure that is meant to be shared. Do you understand?
~ Unknown
Without sorrow, 'tis difficult to know the full threshold of joy.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
~ Unknown
I drop her on the cot and turn away and grab my hair and pull until it hurts. I want to pull all of it out. Every single piece. I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
~ Unknown
I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't.
~ Unknown
The wounds we cause, while unintentional, still bleed.
~ Unknown
I clench my teeth so hard the pain travels all the way to the top of my head. I'm glad for it. It's just a little ache, and I know where it comes from. I can stop it any time I want. The one in my heart is way bigger. I can't fix it no matter how hard I try. It scares me so much that I can't even breathe.
~ Unknown
Every available avenue is paved with guilt, lined with pain, and pockmarked with shame.
~ Unknown
I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not
~ Unknown
How odd, isn't it, that in the end, life comes to surviving more than living.
~ Unknown
want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
~ Unknown
I pour the pain into ink and write and write and write. The words paint pictures and I live Mr. Bass Carter's life through lines and pen. This, I know now, is story at its highest capability. It agitates us to genuine joy and tears. Within story, we are given a new soul, another's soul to try on like clothing, knowing we can shed it again should we choose.
~ Unknown
I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
~ Unknown
news guts me out like a fish. I'm empty inside. My mama's gone from this world? She's gone from this world, and I'll never get to see her again?
~ Unknown
We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.
~ Livy
Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.
~ Li-Young Lee
Sooner of later, God will again bear out that semblance He makes of me each day. He'll knead, fold, punch, pull, mark, smudge, erase, and tear away. Sometimes it feels like love. And makes me tremble. Sometimes it hurts like death. And makes me shake.
~ Li-Young Lee
People left. They always did. There was no use getting his heart mixed up in something that was guaranteed to hurt.
~ Unknown