Quotes About Pain

Prendergast's ribs spread open with a wet crack.

All decisions – good, bad and nothing – are unknowns. Don't waste your life stuck in the void of non-decision, fearing the unknown, as all is unknown. There are good and bad decisions in all good decisions. A bad decision may give you a short sharp pain, but the void of non-decisions will give you a slow, creep-up-on-you ache for a lifetime.

Pain represents 10 percent of the problem, while suffering, which is not wanting to feel the pain, represents 90 percent of the problem.

our resistance to the inevitable pain of life is what really causes us to suffer, not the pain itself.

What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.

It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

Accepting a cup of tea when you're in a hurry, resulting in hundreds of tiny, excruciatingly painful, rapid-fire sips.

The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history--so much pain and so much rage and so much love--was that every item could turn on you in a flash.

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Being honest does not detract from the loss or the incredible value these people have: it simply prevents the pain, mistrust, and anger that follows when the truth comes out.

it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

Only I discernInfinite passion, and the painOf finite hearts that yearn.

'Tis because stiffish cock-tail, taken in time,Is better for a bruise than arnica.

The original wound, the genesis of all the pain in the human experience, the original cause from which Codependence emerged, is the illusion that we are separate from God, from our Creator. We are not. We never have been. But due to planetary conditions it felt like we were. It felt like being human was a punishment.