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Quotes About Pain

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
~ William Morris
I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
~ Emily Dickinson
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
~ Ron Rash, Serena
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
~ Jeff Lindsay, Dexter By Design
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
~ Garcelle Beauvais
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
~ Cat Power
My life is one demd horrid grind.
~ Charles Dickens
Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
~ Christopher Paolini
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.
~ Laini Taylor
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
~ Pliny the Elder
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
~ Richard Paul Evans
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
~ William Godwin
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.
~ William Shakespeare
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
~ Yann Martel
We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
~ Zooey Deschanel
In the screwed-up life I'd been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.
~ Abbi Glines
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
~ Adam Rapp
I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
~ Adriana Trigiani