Quotes About Pain

Oh, these splinters of hope that pierce my heart every now and then, more wounding than despair itself!

E pesando na terra todo o meu peso imóvel. Tu morres. Outros agonizam lentamente, corpos cheios de golpes, a pele colada aos ossos.

Souvent, quand les malades souffraient un long martyre, je m'étais indignée de l'inertie de leurs proches. [...] Je me demandais comment on s'arrange pour survivre quand quelqu'un de cher vous a crié en vain : Pitié !

Au galop mes jours m'échappent et en chacun d'eux je languis.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. - Simone Weil

Evil inhabits the soul of a criminal without being felt there. It is felt in the heart of the man who is afflicted and innocent.

When pain and weariness reach the point of causing a sense of perpetuity to be born in the soul, through contemplating this perpetuity with acceptance and love, we are snatched away into eternity.

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound. - Carol Kennicott

Have men and women always got to hurt each other this way?' cried Ralph. 'Yes. Anybody that ain't content with being a peddler is going to hurt himself and everybody else, I guess,' said Joe.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']

Non dire felice uomo mortale, prima che abbia varcato il termine della vita senza aver patito dolore

CORO Avrà così sempre vigore oggi e in futuro, come l'aveva in passato, questa legge: mai grandezza ai mortali viene senza dolore.»

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

No mortal is happy, and all men on earth who look upon the sun are wretched.

was physically and emotionally painful and exhausting, but I was grateful for the chance to so thoroughly learn to let go of my earthly attachments and trust all would be well.

following your spirit is not about staying in control and avoiding pain in life. It's about surrendering control and meeting life head-on.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.