Quotes About Pain

Brambleclaw wondered whether Crowfeather's pain would ever be healed. Sometimes he seemed as prickly and self-contained as he had been at the start of their journey, before he had learned to trust his companions, and before he had fallen in love with Feathertail.

Great; I get to be told I am dead all over again. -Stomfur

Upset? I'm not upset. You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood....

A little pain can be useful, as it will help me judge how well she is healing. - Spottedleaf

Nu putea îndura s?-i aud? tristeÈ›ea din voce; p?rea c? pierduse ceva preÈ›ios.

All battles leave deep wounds, whether you can see them or not. And wounds take time to heal. You know that, Dovewing. Don't give up hope.

Sh-she's broken a hind leg

Crowfeather might almost have thought that his son was dead, except for the faint rise and fall of his chest and the blood that was still trickling from his belly wound and many others.

No, I think I lay on a thistle.

He tried to snarl defiance, but the only sound was blood bubbling in his torn throat.

I knew it really," she mewed. "It's just that sometimes I dream about being in the forest, hunting with Brackenpaw, and then I wake up and the pain in my leg reminds me I'll never hunt again. It feels too much to bear. I have to pretend that maybe, one day, I'll be able to hunt.

Boulder stretched out one forepaw. "I've got a thorn in it," he announced cheerfully.

All battles leave deep wounds, whether you can see them or not. And wounds take time to heal.

Jaypaw swallowed hard, almost ready to start wailing like a kit that had lost its mother.

She yelped at a wave of sharp stabbing pain across her belly. She lifted her head and saw a small, slime-covered black shape slither out onto the leaves. Squirrelflight tugged away the transparent sac that covered its head and Leafpool stiffened as a wail pierced the air.

I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity. It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

When the ball that was my heart ws broken,... laughter fell out".

In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that her pain might be anything he could recognize, almost as though he believed that Negroes had their own special kind of grieving ritual, another language, something other than tears they used to express their sadness.

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.