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Quotes About Pain

El tiempo transcurría con lentitud, y mi conciencia descentrada de extrañeza y fatiga recogía en el espacio el silencioso dolor de la especie.
~ Roberto Arlt
Entonces repetí palabras que antes habían tenido un sentido pálido en mi experiencia. "Sufrirás", me decía, "sufrirás... sufrirás...sufrirás..." "Sufrirás... sufrirás..." "Sufrirás...", y la palabra se me caía de los labios. Así maduré todo el invierno infernal.
~ Roberto Arlt
Algunas veces en la noche, yo pensaba en la belleza con que los poetas estremecieron al mundo, y todo el corazón se me anegaba de pena como una boca con un grito. Pensaba en las fiestas a que ellos asistieron, las fiestas de la ciudad, las fiestas en los parajes arbolados con antorchas de sol en los jardines florecidos, y de entre las manos se caía mi pobreza.
~ Roberto Arlt
arrodillarme, yo apoyaba el pecho en el asiento de la silla, tomaba mi cabeza entre sus rodillas y, de pronto, crueles latigazos me cruzaban las nalgas. Cuando me soltaba, corría llorando a mi cuarto. Una vergüenza enorme me hundía el alma en las tinieblas. Porque las tinieblas existen aunque usted no lo crea.
~ Roberto Arlt
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
~ Roberto Bolano
Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ¿Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura. Si te pegan un balazo en la nuca, por ejemplo, y el pinche asesino se acerca sin que lo escuches, te vas al otro mundo sin dolor y sin sufrimiento. Pinche escuincle, dijo Epifanio. ¿A ti han pegado muchos tiros en la nuca?
~ Roberto Bolano
Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds.
~ Roberto Bolano
We had contributed. So had his mother and all the other black mothers who wept at night and saw visions of the gates of hell when they should have been asleep.
~ Roberto Bolano
I prefer to not say anything, she wrote, there's no point adding to the pain, or adding our own little mysteries to it. As if the pain itself were not enough of a mystery, as if the pain were not the (mysterious) answer to all mysteries.
~ Roberto Bolano
Era, por cierto, muy hermosa y en ocasiones incluso dolorosamente hermosa. (...) Se reía con ganas, abierta, feliz, y en la combinación del sonido y de sus gestos uno adivinaba sueños inquietantes, paranoias, ganas de vivir a todo trapo aunque terminara rasguñada y llena de magulladuras.
~ Roberto Bolano
Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that's a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.
~ Roberto Bolano
pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.
~ Roberto Bolano
Convertía el dolor, que es largo y natural y que siempre vence, en memoria particular, que es humana y breve y que siempre se escabulle
~ Roberto Bolano
El dolor se acumula, decía mi amigo, eso es un hecho, y cuanto mayor sea el dolor menor es la casualidad.
~ Roberto Bolano
I've always been sensitive to the pain of others, always tried to feel a part of everyone else's suffering.
~ Roberto Bolano
Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)
~ Robin Gold
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
~ Robin Hobb
Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.
~ Robin Hobb
Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.
~ Robin Hobb
I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.
~ Robin Hobb
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
~ Robin Hobb
Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.
~ Robin Hobb
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.
~ Robin Hobb
Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.
~ Robin Hobb