Quotes About Pain

Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines.

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.

Some things touch every open heart and wound every soul.

That's when the screaming started.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets.

He hefted it and winced. "Shit, this thing is heavy." "Thirteen pounds fully loaded," she said. "Don't be a pussy." "I have a bad back." "Really? I thought maybe you had menstrual cramps.

Pain was the coin that paid the ferryman.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets. Ghostwalkers

I can't divorce Kent and his art from what causes pain in Kent's life. This is true in the lives of many individuals labeled ADHD. Their greatest gifts are interwoven with their greatest weaknesses. This might be true for all of us. But we can make something beautiful from this paradox. Our lives can sometimes be a sort of poem—part genetics, part individual adaptation.

Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years.

We are gravely mistaken if we feel that Christianity is a religion to protect us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that there is a Good Friday before every Easter, and that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.

We shed a tear because, for a moment, we allow ourselves to think of the victims of our victories, the pain of the other side, who were enslaving us, but they were still human and they were still suffering. It's when you can feel your opponent's pain that you're beginning the path that leads to reconciliation.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

For Perry, the absence of his daughter in his day-to-day life was like an open wound, an emptiness in his being that erupted in agony with even the softest touch of memory.

That didn't last long, of course. "Oh Bartimaeus, could you just irrigate the Fertile Cresent?""Could you just divert the Euphrates HERE and HERE?""Look, while you're at it, do you mind just planting a few million wheat seeds up and down the flood plain? Thanks." Didn't even give me a dibble. By the time I got to Ur I wasn't surging with any of that terrible joy, oh no. My back was KILLING me.

What have they done to your poor arm?' - Holly 'Oh, don't worry, it's just a graze.' - Lucy 'I'm talking about the bandages. That's simply the most incompetent bit of first aid I've ever seen. Lockwood, George - how much dressing did you use?

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues

Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit [Where savage indignation can lacerate his heart no more].

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.

None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. - Judd Foxman

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.