Quotes About Pain

One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.

Rejection always leaves the deepest, darkest marks.

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

Most people are walking around with way more hurts from their past than we can ever imagine. Pretty much everyone has at some point been deeply hurt by someone. That's your "me too.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

I didn't want to open up myself to yet another possible complicated disappointment. I reasoned, Walk away early so you don't have to suffer the pain of them falling away later. Some call that protecting yourself. But I knew in my case it was called letting past hurts hurt me all over again.

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

You can't edit reality to try and force healing. You can't fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn't get to decide what you do with your memories. Your life can be a graceful combination of beautiful and painful.

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

J'aurais pu lutter contre la cocaïne et lui résister dans un seul cas: celui où la sensation de bonheur aurait été déterminée chez moi moins par la réalisation de l'événement extérieur que par le travail, la peine, les efforts qu'il aurait fallu fournir pour y arriver. Mais je n'avais pas cela dans ma vie.

I always knew death of this relation would be the death of my life.

I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.

Does having three other children lessen your pain over the one who is lost? Not lessen the pain, no. But it keeps me wanting to draw breath. It keeps me alive. In nurturing and caring for another child you can love the child you lost.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Lots of women are doing time for love and fear.

There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.

Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.

The history you don't want to talk about. The details you wish you could forget. The pain that never goes away, no matter how much time passes. I

Did you have a love that grand?" I asked him. No. I never did. Did you? "No, and I wouldn't want to. It would be too painful if it failed." But to experience it once—even if it is painful—don't you think it would be worth it? Wouldn't you want to know what that kind of intensity is like? Wouldn't you want to feel that deeply? "I don't think most people can. Not the way I imagine it.

It is as if there is no syntax, no grammar, that can contain their suffering. Only a list of things perceived.