Quotes About Pain

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

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have treated you. The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

It was the end of my marriage and the end of my tennis career, both at the same time, and almost nobody knew about it except Tatum and me. I felt as though the bottom had dropped out of the world. I couldn't go on, but I had to go on. In Paris, I was literally crying on the changeovers. I would put my head in a towel and fake being angry.

and I could hear from his voice that he was smiling. He was happy that I hurt like that. And I knew I had felt the same happiness, anytime he mentioned feeling hurt by me. Why was it fun for us to make each other suffer? Did that mean it wasn't love? Surely that wasn't what love was?

People said you had to be careful whom you lost your virginity to, because you would become attached, you would want to do it again, you would never get over it. Indeed, even though it had been one of the most painful experiences of my life, still what I felt toward him was something like gratitude, and a feeling of submission that was hard to differentiate from desire—because you had to submit to something.

I felt every level, graphemic, morphological, and semantic, and they all hurt.

Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.

She is venomous like this because she hurts.

I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

You know what they say about hitting yourself over the head with a hammer, she would tell Mamie. It feels good when you stop.

It's a revelation. Her mother is a human being who feels pain, sadness, loneliness, confusion.

Thus those who suffered personal misfortune and those who suffered the pain of the wronged world were together in the nude tomb of wine, and could be like spirits, finally parted from this world of suffering and wrongs.

Muted pain, it turns out, is much worse than clear pain. Clear pain is quantifiable. One can face it, reckon with it, come away braver. There is no way to understand what you cannot feel. No reckoning to be had. It will haunt you forever, make you afraid. Still, they call her this laughable word: Survivor.

Avoiding pain will get you nowhere. Avoiding pain multiplies pain exponentially.

There's wisdom in applying duct tape to our mouths in suffering seasons. In the raw reality of pain, we do well to sit in silence. But it can also be dangerous to be quiet for too long.

This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.

They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.