Quotes About Pain

Katar had given her a small gift by opening her heart and showing her pain. Miri tucked the moment in her own heart and hoped somehow to repay.

and thought how her chest felt like a gutted walnut shell, and wondered if that sensation might last forever.

I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

Nobody has the power to hurt you more than the person who loves you the most.

I hated my life. Maybe it'd be easier if I could just die. [pp.119]

Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.

But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.

I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn't keep pouring from the pitcher.

Nadia," she says, very softly. I lean forward, straining to hear. Her expression has changed, drawn, as if in pain. "She's gone," she whispers. "The bed is empty." "Who, Mother?" "Nadia," she says again. "Her book is wrong. It's not Nadia's book." I know Mother. But it was only ever the book that was wrong. Not the daughter. Never the daughter.

I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.

The life of the jivanmukta is not normal. A normal life is one spent trying to avoid pain and seek pleasure. The jivanmukta, on the other hand, experiences pain and pleasure with equanimity, understanding that everything we experience is the karmic result of past actions.

Redención significa que el dolor ha sido tratado y cambiado tan radicalmente que no sólo pierde la capacidad de hacernos daño, sino que también obtiene el poder para hacer algo bueno"1.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

She wished that she dared take a nap; she was tired, and her back hurt, though not enough to make her swear that she was going to find whoever'd thought it would be a good idea to get pregnant and dislocate their jaw.

Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the courage, and the hope that eventually changed the world.–Middle Shelf : Cool Reads for Kids magazine

All the salve in the world can't cure what gets broken in somebody's soul" -Mama

She finally cannot stand the pressure of the gUilt, and she kills herself.

Sometimes it's part of the guilt and grieving process-to con- sider suicide as an alternative to the pain. But the answer is life, Andy, not death.

I had not put into words, yet—the worst thing, but I thought that I could say it, if I said it word by word.

the sight pierces me with tenderness, he was suffering, then, as I would soon.

I love you, Robert Tate." Bud fingered her ring. "I love you, too. I think I'm going to rest now. Promise you won't go anywhere without me." "I promise." He closed his eyes. Holly lay facing him, burning every nuance of his misery into her brain. She was determined to remember, when she was in labor giving birth to their first child, that, for the love of his woman, he'd been the first to bear pain.

You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.

it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding.