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Quotes About Pain

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
~ Anne Rice
Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.
~ Anne Rice
Fear and music and blood and pain. That was still his existence.
~ Anne Rice
Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.
~ Anne Rice
I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.
~ Anne Rice
I have it in my heart. It's mine alone, this pain.
~ Anne Rice
I clasped his face in both hands as I kissed him. You don't know how I need you, how I love you, how I always have, I whispered in his ear. Maybe he would find me more charming on account of what's befallen me - the unexpected horror I've seen, the inevitable pain I've endured. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit.
~ Anne Rice
When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.
~ Anne Rice
Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!
~ Anne Rice
It was not to relive the old pain that she had returned, it was to know again, for a little while, the joy that had gone before.
~ Anne Rice
The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.
~ Anne Rice
I understand the very definition of hate when I think of you.
~ Anne Rice
I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering
~ Anne Rice
Surely time can take away such love. What a curse if it can't." "It can't." I said.
~ Anne Rice
Oh, it seems a sin to ask compassion of the dead, those who died in pain, those I couldn't save, those for whom I didn't have the right farewells
~ Anne Rice
You think he has no will of his own? You are a fool, Charlotte. Lie with him instead of me!' I laughed at her, and seeing the pain in her eyes, I laughed more. 'I should like to see it, you and your daimon. Lie there and call him to come now.
~ Anne Rice
Some things one doesn't want to remember.
~ Anne Rice
Treasure the pain; treasure what you have with her, including the fear. Treasure what you may have, including the failure. Treasure it because if we don't live this life, if we don't live it to the fullest year after year and century after century, well, then, we die.
~ Anne Rice
Never in all this time since you first came to me, never once have I ever looked into your eyes or heard your voice, or even thought of you, without feeling pain. It's the pain connected to loving you ,to realizing my limits, and what I'll never have. Do you remmeber feeling my heartbeat? You'll never feel such a rhythm as you will with me. I'm your Savage Garden, and yet so tame and soft and safe!
~ Anne Rice
I think you're like a man who loses an arm or a leg and keeps insisting that he can feel pain where the arm or leg used to be.
~ Anne Rice
But then I do not remember everything, as I once thought I did. There is something in us, even us, that will not allow for that, something that pushes the memory of suffering that is unbearable slowly away.
~ Anne Rice
Y mi alma oscura es feliz otra vez porque no sabe sentirse de otra forma durante mucho tiempo y porque el dolor es un mar profundo y tenebroso en el que me ahogaría si no pilotara con firmeza mi pequeña nave por su superficie, siempre con rumbo a un sol que no saldrá jamás.
~ Anne Rice
He could not even see the images which I was seeing, so broken was his heart.
~ Anne Rice
But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face.
~ Anne Rice