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Quotes About Pain

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
~ George Eliot
I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
~ Henri Nouwen
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
~ Herodotus
There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?
~ Hubert Butler
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
~ Jack Abbott
One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.
~ John Assaraf
Pain is life. Life is pain.
~ Katherine Applegate
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
~ Saint Augustine
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
~ Samuel Johnson
He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
~ Charles Churchill
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
~ Don DeLillo
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
~ Fred Rogers
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
~ Frederick Leboyer
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
~ Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
~ Djuna Barnes
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
~ George Sand
Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.
~ James Frey
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
~ James Frey
No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.
~ James Kidd