Quotes About Pain

Silence is a protective coating over pain. (p.29)

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

If the appetite goes, the pain goes with it.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

During this Lent term Maurice came out as a theologian. It was not humbug entirely. He believed that he believed, and felt genuine pain when anything he was accustomed to met criticism—the pain that masquerades among the middle classes as Faith. It was not Faith, being inactive. It gave him no support, no wider outlook. It didn't exist till opposition touched it, when it ached like a useless nerve.

und verstand nichts, nur dass der Mensch geschaffen worden ist, ohne Hilfe des Himmels Schmerzen und Einsamkeit zu erleiden.

He understood nothing except that man has been created to feel pain and loneliness without help from heaven.

He apologized when I was twelve. He was crying. I don't like to remember that. I like to remember the time he spelled and defined 'metamorphosis' when my mama was clean. He used her as an example, and he was chewing on the Popsicle stick left over from our lunch that day. When he smiled, his teeth were mad purple.

he dragged his words painfully from the poets

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ??

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.

hani bazen olur ya, a?lamak yetmez. a?laman?n hiçbir türlüsü yetmez. ba??rmak da yetmez. çekip gitmeye bile gerek yoktur. garip bir gülme kaplar gö?sünüzü. çünkü ac? öyle büyüktür ki, bedeninizi kaplar. bedeniniz ac? olur. ac? yabanc? de?ildir, batmaz. gülersiniz. gülüyorum. bütün gizlenmi?, yat??t?r?lm??, bütün yasaklanm?? gülmelerimi gülüyorum.

?nsan, yaras? yaras?na denk geleni seviyor demek ki...

It's a funny fact about humanity: fear and pain, rather than courage and joy, are diminished when they are shared

If I had a dime for every happy poem I wrote I'd be dead

He was broken from the start. And this stupid world took what was left of him and ground it into sand.

David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes.