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Quotes About Pain

No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story.
~ John Berger
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~ John Berger
The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.
~ John Berger
All souls converge upon a hopeless mote tonight, as though the throngs of souls in hopeless pain rise up to say they cannot care, to say they abide whatever is to come. My air is flung with souls which will not stop and among them hangs a soul that has not died and refuses to come home.
~ John Berryman
and if, 0 my love, my heart is breaking, please neglect my cries and I will spare you.
~ John Berryman
No ocean rages like a tortured soul.
~ John Bowring
Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
~ John Boyne
It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.
~ John Boyne
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the 'healing feeling.'
~ John Bradshaw
Images of pain and distress, more memories of things I'd seen during the war and would rather have forgotten, rose to the surface of my mind. As long as I kept on walking they'd remain mixed and chaotic, like imperfectly recollected books and films; once I stopped they'd become unbearably organised.
~ JOHN BRAINE
as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. 'The subject exhibited a pain response.' But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her .
~ John Brunner
So also Augustine, "The suffering at which you cry, is medicine, not punishment; chastisement, not condemnation. Do not drive away the rod, if you would not be driven away from the inheritance. Know, brethren, that the whole of that misery of the human race, under which the world groans, is a medicinal pain, not a penal sentence
~ John Calvin
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
~ John Calvin
One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.
~ John Carey
Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21... The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain.
~ John Cassavetes
Till kicked and torn and beaten out he liesAnd leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.
~ John Clare
My illness was love, though I knew not the smart, But the beauty of love was the blood of my heart.
~ John Clare
I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.
~ John Clare
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people
~ John Connolly
He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.
~ John Connolly
When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end.
~ John Connolly
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
~ John Connolly
And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.
~ John Connolly
Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again, and the ache for her would return with a vengeance.
~ John Connolly