Quotes About Pain

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

I know I should be reassuring him that everything's all right, that he needn't worry, but I can't. Instead I'm talking to someone I don't know who isn't even there. Thank you, I'm saying. Thank you for Lucy, thank you for Claire and for Daniel, thank you for this cold and this blood and this pain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

There was always plenty of collateral damage; politics left a trail of pain and tortured families in its wake.

In the hopelessness of her situation she had found strength, and in her strength there was irresistible pain.

Love is an abyss. To somehow find it beautiful while it's killing you is what it means to be something other than an animated corpse.

No, she's in Spain, too, they're all in Spain, there's no one here... Am I in Spain? No, I'm not in Spain, dear, I'm in agony. That's where I am.

Mrs. Figg breaks her leg

The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain.

Hospitals are terrible places to be and terrible places to die.

if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

There was such a dense concentration of American energy there, American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Everybody hurts (REM)

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

Why do you cling to the guilt and deny the love? Why are love and peace more difficult to embrace than pain and discord?

It is said that the Puritans banned bearbaiting, not because of the pain it caused the bears but because of the pleasure it gave the onlookers.

Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

Engel nennens Freude, Teufel nennens Pein, Menschen meinen, Es muss Liebe sein.

Today, however, we know that writing, at least science writing, is partly a skill. And skills can be improved. The pain can be reduced.

Why deny them the glory that was theirs, true inheritors of Eden? So I heard the others start to whisper. Adam and Eve lived in ignorance, oblivious to their nascent potential. Why would he create such beings only to shackle them? Their pain became our pain, for we loved them as much as we loved Him.