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Quotes About Pain

Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
~ Nicholas Rowe
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You have to suffer in order to be a human being who can help people understand suffering.
~ Nicholson Baker
client once said that it was like a bottle full of pain, if you can imagine that. And each time you let yourself remember, each time you let yourself feel the pain, each time you cry, you empty the bottle a little bit. So it becomes easier to carry.
~ Unknown
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
~ Nick Bantock
It's often the ones we love most who do us harm.
~ Unknown
It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That's the deal. That's the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.
~ Nick Cave
Que el mundo sepa que he muerto de amor».
~ Nick Cave
If there was a thorn for every time that ah have died today,' ah thought, 'a thorn for every time that they have killed me, the world would be one big briar patch.
~ Nick Cave
And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees
~ Nick Cave
Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.
~ Nick Cave
There Will Always Be Suffering It Flows Through Life Like Water
~ Unknown
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...
~ Nick Hornby
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...
~ Nick Hornby
That's what I was gonna do, and I wasn't going to hurt. And if you shut yourself off and say, "This isn't going to hurt me," you can't shut it down without shutting it down totally. I closed myself down so much that I was making it, doing great with surviving – but my soul was completely encased.
~ Unknown
Suffering must be obviously futile if it is to be 'educational'. It is for this reason that our history is so unintelligible, and indeed, nothing that was true has ever made sense. 'Why was so much pain necessary ?' we foolishly ask. But it is precisely because history has made no sense that we have learnt from it, and the lesson remains a brutal one.
~ Unknown
There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.
~ Nick Saban
Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......
~ Unknown
I learnt that pain is only a message. You can choose to ignore the message. Your body can do a great deal more than it wants you to know.
~ Nicola Griffith
I sipped, and the hot liquor eased the pain in the center of my chest, warmed the unfallen tears, made me long to bury my face in a woman's hair. In Julia's hair.
~ Nicola Griffith
Angst was for the dark.
~ Nicola Griffith
Promises were useless in the face of torture.
~ Nicola Griffith
The burning was something to hold on to as her headache threatened to engulf the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
Her mind was empty of everything but the feel of iron gritting through muscle and cartilege.
~ Nicola Griffith