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Quotes About Pain

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.
~ Roger Delano Hinkins
Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
~ Sarah Dessen
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?
~ Sarah-Patton Boyle
She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
~ Scott Westerfeld
But he's never been interested in me, and the last time I made a move on him, Caillen almost tore my arm out of its socket. Lesson learned. Syn off-limits. (Kasen)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
~ Skeet Ulrich
And I know how he feels—it's so good it hurts. I think I'm going to die from happiness. I think I'm going to die from pain. Time has stopped; time is racing.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
~ Tayari Jones
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
~ Walter Dean Myers
How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.
~ William Batchelder Greene
And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.
~ Koushun Takami
Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
~ Lauren Oliver
They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
~ Lawrence Taylor
When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.
~ Lidija Dimkovska
There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
~ Lord Byron
The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.
~ Marlo Morgan
Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
~ Mason Cooley
time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.
~ Meg O'Brien
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
~ Mike Birbiglia
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
~ Natalia Kills
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.
~ Mark Twain
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
~ Mark Twain
Humor is tragedy plus time.
~ Mark Twain