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Quotes About Pain

Era un experto consumado en lo tocante al dolor. Nada podía causar más dolor a Aquiles que aquello: el hombre más próximo a su corazón le traicionaba ante su peor enemigo.
~ Madeline Miller
hunched against the tearing contraction. I had the willow
~ Madeline Miller
Sevmemi? olanlar, hayatlar? ac? ve deh?etle geçmi? olanlar içinse insan?n içip unutabilece?i kara nehir Lethe vard?. Bir parça teselli.
~ Madeline Miller
His voice then was like a balm upon my raw skin. I yearned for his hands, for all of him, mortal though he was, distant and dying though he would always be.
~ Madeline Miller
He had a jagged scar on one leg, a seam that stitched his dark brown flesh from heel to knee, wrapping around the muscles of the calf and burying itself in the shadow beneath the tunic. It looked like it had been a knife, I thought, or something like it, ripping upwards and leaving behind feathered edges, whose softness belied the violence that must have caused it.
~ Madeline Miller
shine with pride. I knew how painful the death of that hope could be.
~ Madeline Miller
Within him, there was an ocean's worth of grief; which could only be stopped for a moment, never emptied.
~ Unknown
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. We speak to our parents with a sorrow unfamiliar until the day they are dying.
~ Unknown
Life is a joke and I don't get it, but I'll try to make it.. Since laughter is the only escape from the pain that I feel. Is it sarcasm, or is it real?
~ Unknown
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
Uno nunca está tan solo como cuando se es adolescente y tiene un secreto, nunca se duele tanto, nunca se despedaza por dentro más que a esa edad cuando en vez de formarse, uno se está rompiendo.
~ Unknown
Many people assume that terminal patients, especially those with cancer, will have pain. That's not always so; some have no pain, others have mild to moderate pain that can be controlled with ease. A few people have pain so severe that expert assessment and care are needed to bring it under control.
~ Unknown
The resulting dehydration usually isn't troublesome, and actually can increase a dying person's comfort, by reducing the incidence of some uncomfortable symptoms such as vomiting, pain, or difficulty in breathing.
~ Unknown
to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.
~ Maggie Nelson
As if keening on your knees were somehow obscene As if there were a control so marvelous you could teach it to eat pain.
~ Maggie Nelson
I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.
~ Maggie Nelson
96. For a prince of blue is a prince of blue because keeps 'a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere' (Lowell, 1870) This is how a prince of blue becomes a pain devil.
~ Maggie Nelson
This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.
~ Maggie Nelson
94.—Well then, it is as you please. This is the dysfunction talking. This is the disease talking. This is how much I miss you talking. This is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.
~ Maggie Nelson
A]fter all, what does it mean for pain to be 'memorable'? You're either in pain or you're not. And it isn't the pain that one forgets. It's the touching death part. As the baby might say to its mother, we might say to death: I forget you, but you remember me.
~ Maggie Nelson
102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
~ Maggie Nelson
After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
~ Maggie Nelson
It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
~ Maggie Nelson