Quotes About Pain

For a man can bear a great deal, but a horse less. However, when it's time to get back in the saddle after resting, it's as though your arse were shouting, "Help! Murder!

Ho avuto paura. Sono stata vigliacca. E ho pagato per questo. Come paga ogni vigliacco. Col dolore, con la vergogna, con l'umiliazione ignobile. E un terribile disgusto di me stessa.

Vale la pena pagare il piacere col dolore.

No one wants to suffer. But yet it is our lot. And some suffer more. Not necessarily by choice. The point is not the bearing of suffering. The point is how it is borne.

You know, when you've lost the person you love most in life, the pain doesn't ever feel like it's going to go away. It's not going to be okay. You're never going to hold them in your arms again, never going to laugh at their stupid jokes, never going to quarrel over something trivial . . . they're never . . . just never there again.

tablecloth. 'He let me leave early. Stomach pains … I might have

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Something has crumbled inside him. Something has broken. Like corrupt clockwork in a smashed watch.

That would hurt the one I love the most

Your pain isn't a trophy to show off. It's not a story to tell. It's potentially poison to your soul. To refuse to forgive is to choose to self-destruct.

Circumcision was invisible to the public. A once and done. All male. Decided by parents. The mark of the new covenant is visible and public. It involves daily decisions. It's not gender-specific. It's an all-skate. And while it doesn't require surgery, it's painful. Love requires sacrifice, and sacrifice is always a bit painful.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

CAÍDA Y me vuelvo a caer desde mí mismo al vacío, a la nada. ¡Qué pirueta! ¿Desciendo o vuelo? No lo sé. Recibo el golpe de rigor, y me incorporo. Me toco para ver si hubo gran daño, mas no me encuentro. Mi cuerpo ¿dónde está? Me duele sólo el alma. Nada grave.

I don't have a lot of words, but I have a lot of faith. I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.

How can she bear the pain of becoming human? The end of exile is the end of being.

But there is no mysterious virtue in Justine's suffering. The martyrdom of this Christ-figure is absolutely useless; she is a gratuitous victim. And if there is no virtue in her suffering, then there is none, it turns out, in her virtue itself; it does nobody any good, least of all herself.

Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.

My spite was sharp as broken glass

Sorridi in pubblico, piangi in pubblico, vivi in pubblico, crepa in pubblico. C'era, sui loro visi, un'emozione schietta, atipica per gli attori. Stasera erano al telegiornale. E' la cosa peggiore veder soffrire i propri figli.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.