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Quotes About Pain

I surely know my pride will go to the wall, my life will burst its bonds in exceeding pain, and my empty heart will sob out in music like a hollow reed, and the stone will melt in tears.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But it is love, my beloved. Its pleasure and pain are boundless, and endless its wants and wealth. It is as near to you as your life, but you can never wholly know it.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
We may not know exactly what is happening: we do not know exactly even about a speck of dust. But when we feel the flow of life in us to be one with the universal life outside, then all our pleasures and pains are seen strung upon one long thread of joy. The facts: I am, I move, I grow, are seen in all their immensity in connection with the fact that everything else is there along with me, and not the tiniest atom can do without me.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Oh, why was living so painful, and why were we given these moments of health, if only to realise how burdened with pain we were the rest of the time? Why was it so difficult to live day after day with people and still remember that you were distinct from them and that this was your one mortal life?
~ Rachel Cusk
he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it should happen of its own accord. I think that if I had known, as a child, what was possible in terms of pain, I might have had much the same response.
~ Rachel Cusk
What is history other than memory without pain?' he said, smiling pleasantly and folding his small white hands together on the table in front of him. 'If people want to recapture some of those hardships, these days they go to the gym.
~ Rachel Cusk
The memory of suffering had no effect whatever on what they elected to do: on the contrary, it compelled them to repeat it, for the suffering was the magic that caused the object to come back and allowed the delight in dropping it to become possible again.
~ Rachel Cusk
Apesar disso, falou ele, eu ainda acredito no amor. O amor restaura quase tudo, e quando não consegue restaurar, leva a dor embora.
~ Rachel Cusk
Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?
~ Rachel Cusk
Once Agnes had been in love and since then she had been in pain.
~ Rachel Cusk
that awful human type of sadness.
~ Rachel Cusk
I am one of those who believes that without suffering there can be no art
~ Rachel Cusk
There was no such thing as an unblemished childhood, though people will do everything they can to convince you otherwise. There was no such thing as a life without pain.
~ Rachel Cusk
Guiltily I would think that I had baptised her early in the eternal doctrine of human pain, of things passing, of what was loved vanishing, never to return.
~ Rachel Cusk
Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can't restore, it takes away the pain.
~ Rachel Cusk
Doer, dói sempre. Só não dói depois de morto. Porque a vida toda é um doer.
~ Rachel De Queiroz
Stop" "I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell." -"I'm okay." "I'm not.
~ Rachel Gibson
For the first time since she'd pieced her heart back together, she felt a small tug at one of the strings. She dropped her hands to her sides and took a step back. The one word she'd waited to hear could destroy her carefully constructed life. "Don't." Don't make me forget. Don't make it better. Don't make me love you again. - Autumn Haven
~ Rachel Gibson
When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.
~ Rachel Gibson
I gave you so much of myself," I say, "and you wasted me.
~ Rachel Harrison
Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.
~ Shelby Steele
Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.
~ No I.D.
Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.
~ Kalki Koechlin
Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive.
~ Zoe Buckman