Quotes About Pain

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.

isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Loss is the hardest thing," I said. "But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Listen, did any of those girls feel less pain because Salsbury's evil isn't entirely his own doing? I'm an old-style liberal when it comes to most things. But this liberal line about compassion for the criminal—that's ninety percent horseshit. You

Unrequited love.

Denial endures because it soothes.

After you have suffered great losses and known 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

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.

She'd been only four, much too little to understand what was happening, when her mother walked out. She hardly remembered Michelle. Yet the loss was still with her, not really a pain, more like an emptiness, as if something that ought to be inside of her were missing. She worried that more losses would leave other empty spaces in her, until she would be as hollow as a shell from which the egg had been drained through a pinhole.

One eye had been torn from its socket.

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

Whether God's a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain, but also of pure terror, and carried on it were words: "He's biting, he's biting!

From time to time he heard himself whimpering in grief. Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.

the rejection hurt.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

face that looked partly melted.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.