Quotes About Pain

Women have a predestination to suffering.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

People hurt others all the time, even when they loved them. Especially when they loved them. It was usually because they were in pain themselves.

Perhaps there were certain kinds of pain that remained raw forever.

I realise there was little we could say to each other that wouldn't inflict some sort of pain. ... It was easier for people living in the aftermath to ask nothing rather than trespassing on each other's fragile memories. p240

Mothers seem to have an infinite capacity to withstand hurt from their children. All they see is their pain and I think they feel responsible for it, as if it is their fault that the child in question is feeling so bad and acting so selfishly -- and thus the very least they can do is take it.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Maybe it was simply that falling in love wasn't something Lori would ever be able to turn away from, regardless of just how much pain she knew would be coming down the pike. And maybe, just maybe, as long as she never actually confessed to him how she felt, that would make it okay to give in to what she felt for Grayson for one night, beneath the moon, with the smell of wild grass and the ocean all around them...

Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could give hers up for his if it meant she could take away all of the pain he'd had to deal with at such a terribly young age.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

she no longer even spoke of him as her former husband. Now he was "the cuntsucker," the new woman in his life was "the cunt," and together they had "fucked me".

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Still, if your leg was broken, you felt the pain, and it didn't ease the pain to be told that somebody else had two broken legs.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Love is a hole in the heart.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?

It's like leaving a version of myself alone with the pain, abandoning him.

The trauma was perpetual when you were left in it alone.

I am bleeding to death. It doesn't hurt at all.

On ne connaît pas la véritable souffrance tant qu'on n'en est pas arrivé à souhaiter mourrir.

and Nan died at age three months.