Quotes About Pain

I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.

tear-filled eyes. I could handle her tears of pain, and her tears of anger. But these… these tears are from something that breaks me a little.

To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends in the trees this time of year, so a scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart. I carry this in my body, seed in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe. But they guard me, these small pains, from growing sure of myself and perhaps forgetting.

The more we cling to the belief in a self, the more pain and alienation we feel.

But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed." "What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?" The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.

And from that day on everything under the sun and moon made me sad—

ACOAs often develop an external locus of control, believing that something outside of themselves will decrease the emptiness or the pain they feel inside. Thoughts such as "If the house is clean enough, I will be good enough" or "If I win the big one at the casino, I will be somebody important" are attempts to control blocked pain and fear.

Children from healthy families may work out childhood traumas in the playroom, while children of addicted families find themselves working out the painful traumas of the past in real life.

Hope, wish, dream, need. Heartbreak, loss, pain, grief. Which was bigger, which was stronger? Love was stronger, but was there enough love here? Was there enough love to mend their hearts and make them work? How would she know? How could she know?

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

I tried to avoid looking at the skull, but somehow I wanted to keep checking that it was still there. It's like when you have a sore in your mouth or tooth ache – your tongue keeps going back to check it still hurts.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

The chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

My heart was already cracked, but this one word, gone, was the stone that broke it.

Why do you weep?" "The pain," I said, and it was true, but it was not of my wounds I spoke.

God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. "It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.

and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

Neither of them noticed Jane for a moment, which was for the best, as Jane looked like parts of her had been ripped up and flung into the wind. While Hunter smiled at Savannah, little pieces of Jane fluttered down to the parking lot. ... She waded through the litter of her old self and climbed into the battered Taurus.

Instead, his elbow caught me on the nose. A flash of pain shot through me, and I fell backward into the seat behind me.

If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.