Quotes About Pain

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Love leaves scars.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

But who knows how long a grief may last? Isn't it possible that, even thirty or forty years after the death of a child or a brother or a sister, one may half waken, thinking of that person with the same lost emptiness, that feeling of places which may never be filled... not even in death?

Hearts don't really break. If only they could.

it was more like bleeding than crying.

She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Rightly tired of the pain Ä° hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If Ä° could end it, Ä° would. But Ä° can't.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain.

That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.