Quotes About Pain

She didn't tell him about the cancer. She didn't want to tell anyone about it. It seemed to make everything worse.

You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

and we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt.

I'm sorry I laughed...I know it isn't funny for you. It was incredibly stupid of me to laugh. Does it hurt a lot anywhere? 'Not really,' I said. 'Only a bit in your soul?' 'Maybe a bit.' 'Let it sink,' he said. 'Just leave it. You can't use it for anything.

Du bestemmer sjøl når det skal gjøre vondt.

Alas! that all we loved of him should be,But for our grief, as if it had not been,And grief itself be mortal!

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Oh,lift me as a wave,a leaf,a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life!I bleed!

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever Should come near.

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Joy, once lost, is pain

I Fall upon the thorns of life....

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Where does all the pain go once you're done with the healing?

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

Mental illness is a cruel disease.

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

The cause of death was always life. Across many years now, he had comforted people he knew would soon die. He hoped his consoling whispers would do them no harm. He hoped too that he could reduce their immediate pain. But he could not carry them around in his head like luggage. He had to examine with all the intensity he could muster, do what he could, avoid harm, and then forget them.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

In Tacoma, Washington, I speared myself on my guitar's whammy bar – it went right through my hand. I went into shock,

Feeling is the antithesis of pain…the more pain one feels, the less pain one suffers" – Arthur Janov