Quotes About Pain

It's always the ones who believe who are hurt the most when things go wrong.

the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt, so wounded all he could do was cry and mope around the house and ask me to make him peanut butter and banana sandwiches with the crusts cut off, then play Boggle with him, which of course I always did, because I usually do whatever Langston wants me to do.

If you could offer me a guarantee, Ely, a guarantee that the hurt that makes my heart feel like a boulder sitting inside my chest, beatless, if I knew this hurt would eventually go away and I could feel hope again - for me, for you, for us - then maybe my lips could unlock now and we could get on with this. The End.

you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.

Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain, for they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.

A lo largo de esa semana comprendió que los libros podían ser una tabla de salvación en un océano de silencio y pena. Y cuando se acostaba, con la espalda dolorida de tanto leer, sentía la mano de Rana en la oscuridad y viajaba con ella por el mundo de las historias leídas.

Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

The crazy thing is, Mother, after more than twenty years of this crap, down at the bottom of my heart, where it ought to be the darkest, I think there's still this spark of love for you. It may be pity, I'm not sure, but it hurts enough to be love.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.

Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing.

Always as lovely as any woman in any magazine, as any TV star of whom millions were enamored, she had lately looked thin and drawn. Even the evident weariness and the crescents of darkness like fading bruises around her eyes did not detract from her appearance. In fact, they suggested that she was tenderhearted and haunted by some terrible loss, that her pain, like the pain endured by a martyr, was beautiful, which then made her face yet more beautiful than it had been before.

Not all wounds are the bleeding kind

She was so nice to look at that Joe twice stabbed his left foot when he thought he was spearing a bit of litter, though neither wound was serious enough to require a tetanus shot.

Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.

Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer's art.

The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom.

After you have suffered great losses and know much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.