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Quotes About Pain

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain.
~ Paul Levine
Some of the agonies that burn in the heart forever begin as brief as snapshots.
~ Paul Monette
When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.
~ Paul Monette
Grief is madness-ask anyone who's been there. They will tell you it abates with time, but that's a lie. What drowns you in the first year is a force of solitude and helplessness exactly equal in intensity to the love you had for the one who's gone. Equally passionate, equally intimate. The spaces between the the stabs of pain grow longer after a while, but they're empty spaces. The chich?(c)s of condolence get you back to the office.
~ Paul Monette
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
~ Paul Monette
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
~ Paul Monette
Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.
~ Paul Monette
When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.
~ Paul Monette
The pain between them made me as envious as their laughter, because it was real and expressible, blood-red with passion, and not the invisible pain of a ghost like me. Sometimes my head filled with a scream that went on for hours but was silenced by the walls of the closet. My face still wearing its social smile fixed in place as if by a stroke.
~ Paul Monette
Whoever dismisses bigotry or underestimates its impact has never lived under the pain.
~ Paul Mooney
Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.
~ Unknown
Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
~ Unknown
Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He
~ Paul S. Kemp
fear led to hate and hate to suffering.
~ Paul S. Kemp
Vader completed his meditation and opened his eyes. His pale, flame-savaged face stared back at him from out of the reflective black transparisteel of his pressurized meditation chamber. Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He welcomed it. Pain fed his hate, and hate fed his strength. Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.
~ Paul S. Kemp
Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn's feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.
~ Paul S. Kemp
Instead, your words and actions bring up the person's profound internal pain, which in turn generates their extreme behavior.
~ Unknown
Linehan echoes this belief, often saying that people with BPD are like people with third-degree burns over 90 percent of their body. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.
~ Unknown
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~ Paul Tillich
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."
~ Paul Tillich
Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~ Paul Tillich
Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.
~ Paul Tillich
Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~ Paul Tillich