Quotes About Pain

Treacherousgenerals:look at my dead house,look at broken Spain.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

Strive after the Good before thou art in danger, before pain masters thee and thy mind loses its keeness

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go.

If we abandon all hope right now, does that in some way protect us from some bigger pain later?

La sua premura è una goccia d'acqua, però, incapace di riempire l'oceano di vuoto che ho nel cuore.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She

Studies have shown that vibrations of 25 hertz applied to extremities promote wound healing, and increase bone density and muscle mass. They also help with pain relief. The cat's purr is 25 hertz (25 cycles per second).

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.

The whole world seemed to be wounded, broken, hurting.

He felt empty, broken, defeated.

There's no such thing as an uninjured soldier.

If it was true that men made their own hell on earth, then he'd certainly found his.

Sometimes the only way to deal with fear and pain is to open your heart to it. Grandma Alice says there's nothing we can't overcome, as long as our hearts stay open.

You don't say, "I'm sorry,"' he says. 'Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There's no reason to apologize for that.' He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, 'If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.' (I'm not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)

In French, giving birth without an epidural isn't called "natural" childbirth. It's called "giving birth without an epidural" (accouchement sans péridurale).

You're afraid, Chris. You don't let yourself trust or feel too deeply, because you don't want to be hurt. I don't want to be hurt either." ...Lindsay Reynoso

A cynic is just a wounded romantic.

Hattie felt as if someone had reached inside her breast, grabbed her heart, and twisted it out of her body, only to discard it in the slop bucket.