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Quotes About Pain

True knowledge comes only through suffering
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kula??na çal?nan sevdiÄŸin bir ses, Sustuysa, tatl?l???n? yitirdiyse aniden, Ç??l?kla y?rtmaya cesaret edemediÄŸin bir sessizlik, Kuvvetli, taze bir hastal?k gibi ac?t?yorsa seni, Ne ümidi? Ne yard?m?? Nas?l bir müzik silebilir, Bu sessizliÄŸi kulaklar?ndan?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For the last week I have not been at all well, and indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore. To-day this abstraction is not necessary; I am much better; and, indeed, little remains of the indisposition but the vulgar fractions of a cough and cold.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My dearest sisters will be very grieved if we don't go to England, and yet how can I even try to persuade my husband back into the scene of old associations where he would feel so much pain? Do I not know what I myself should suffer in some places? And he loved his mother with all his power of loving, which is deeper and more passionate than love is with common men.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
after all, spinal disorders do not usually attack life, though they disable and overthrow. The pain you endure is the terrible thing. Has a local application of chloroform been ever tried?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The struggle with me has been a very painful one; I cannot enter on the how and wherefore at this moment. I had expected more help than I have found, and am left to myself, and thrown so on my own sense of duty as to feel it right, for the sake of future years, to make an effort to stand by myself as I best can. At the same time, I will not tell you that at the last hour something may not happen to keep me at home.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By the way, we have just been reading 'Vanity Fair.' Very clever, very effective, but cruel to human nature. A painful book, and not the pain that purifies and exalts. Partial truths after all, and those not wholesome. But I certainly had no idea that Mr. Thackeray had intellectual force for such a book; the power is considerable. For Balzac, Balzac may have gone out of the world as far as we are concerned. Isn't it hard on us? exiles from Balzac
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I only thought Of lying quiet there where I was thrown Like sea-weed on the rocks, and suffer her To prick me to a pattern with her pin, Fibre from fibre, delicate leaf from leaf, And dry out from my drowned anatomy The last sea-salt left in me.
~ Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee's crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.
~ Elizabeth Bear
His breath hurt her lungs, in and out, in and out, as if he breathed the smoke and ash he saw.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien gasped first at pain like flame, then pleasure, and somehow scraped his hand through the narrow space between David's back and the lid so he could knot his fingers into David's hair. He bit his lip, and did not cry out, while they rode in the lumpy coffin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Patty's mouth comes open and her lips shape names as if it would hurt her to say it out loud.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He clung to flying twigs and underbrush to steady his uncertain descent, his bruised hip aching when he slipped.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Benedick's flesh, and his colony were replete with recollections that he would have preferred to erase, undo, or lose forever.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In a moment, the heat would touch him. Kit braced himself for the pain, tilting his chin down to this chest and imagining that his weight flowed like water through his pelvis and down his legs, anchoring him to the floor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There was the sense of something having been ripped from me; that heartbroken punch of loss without any memories to explain where it was coming from.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The pain was vast. He lay back, balling his fists against his eyes, and concentrated on breathing. His leg throbbed; the pain paled and ebbed while he outwaited it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She tilted her head back reflexively, drinking deep of the night air tainted by the unwholesome sweetness of the Well, looking upward as if the stars were there to help her bear the pain.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She wore no iron rings; the city itself pained her.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He knew every inch of the thing's surface by now, had bloodied his fingertips with worrying at it, with picking at the spikes of the mouthpiece and exploring the curve and cheeks. It weighed as much as a small child in his arms, resting against his knees, and holding it close to his breast was the only thing that silenced the savage pain in his brands any more.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My identity, my selfhood. The person I'd been for nearly twenty ans. It dropped away, and I was left wrecked and retching, cramped, choking up a thin stream of bile.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's way too late to start pretending you like me." "I do like you, you enormous pain in the ass.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She hadn't really done anything to me physically. This was just what a broken heart felt like.
~ Elizabeth Bear