Quotes About Pain

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

What was the use of love if all it did was ruin things?

Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.

for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!

The boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.

the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

You are already tearing my heart in two. What difference would more pain matter?" "If

It was as if I'd been running from my past, my story, my pain, and I'd run smack into myself again," she says.

I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended. -Bound

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body. This grief. How slow The body is to realize You are never coming back.

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

I can't even imagine how hard it is to spend time with a stranger after being married all your life. Kevin was sick a long time, but not having him at all now is much worse than I thought it would be. The only consolation is that I know he's out of pain. I'm relieved and depressed all at the same time. It's terrible," she confessed. "I thought I had grieved it all out when he fell into the coma." Morrie

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. —C. S. Lewis It

Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.

Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?