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Quotes About Pain

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
~ Octavia E. Butler
But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Grief was grief, she thought. It was pain and loss and despair—an abrupt end where there should have been a continuing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Clay was slowly deciding to kill himself. It was slow because, in spite of everything Clay did not want to die. He was just becoming less and less able to tolerate the pain of living.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change And hidden within Change Is surprise, delight, Confusion, pain, Discovery, loss, Opportunity, and growth. As always, God exists To shape And to be shaped.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles
~ Octavia E. Butler
Pleasure is rare, pain is plentiful, and, delusional or not, it hurts like hell.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In spite of your loss and pain, you aren't alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Why do you keep trying to kill yourself?" I hadn't expected an answer so I was surprised when she spoke quietly. "Most of the time living just isn't worth the trouble.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It hurts like hell," I warned. He shrugged. "Most things do.
~ Octavia E. Butler
La mia 'freddezza' lo turbava, ma lui non era un empatico e non capiva che per me il dolore era il male e la morte la fine del dolore. Per quel che mi riguardava, nessun verso della Bibbia poteva cambiare questa verità. Harry non capiva l'empatia, ma infondo perché avrebbe dovuto? La maggior parte della gente ne sapeva poco o niente.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I've had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today, to keep peddling and keep up with the others when just about everyone I saw made me feel worse and worse. My
~ Octavia E. Butler
Were all slaves so thin—underfed, overworked, and taught that most things hurt?
~ Octavia E. Butler
I get a lot of grief that doesn't belong to me, and that isn't real. But it hurts.
~ Octavia E. Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles FROM Memories of Other Worlds
~ Octavia E. Butler
She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter. How could she do that? Did she really believe in anything at all? Was it all hypocrisy?
~ Octavia E. Butler
If everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
~ Ogden Nash
Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
~ Ogden Nash
Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.
~ Olaf Stapledon