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Quotes About Pain

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
~ Sara Zarr
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without the dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Know me," Ven said as he drove knife after knife into the spirit's body, "for I am death to all oathbreakers, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
~ Mark Twain
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
~ Rashida Jones
Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
~ Charles Bukowski
My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.
~ Conrad Aiken
Time heals all things but one: Time.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.
~ Marc Ian Barasch
Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
~ Kate Bush
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.
~ Sophie Anderton
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.
~ John Green
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
~ Tracey Gold
It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.
~ Eddie Vedder
My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.
~ Meg Cabot
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
~ Richard Stallman
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.
~ Emma Stone
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
~ Harold Brodkey
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
~ Tom Petty
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
~ Jonathan Nolan, Memento mori