Quotes About Pain

Meg swore and hopped, nursing a bruised toe.

her feet got sweeped. "OW!" she hollered. "OW! OUCH! OW!

And then her consummate hatred for the Fairleys, so close to the surface, rose up again and took hold of her, jostling against the grief for prominence in her mind. Was there no end to the pain that family would cause her? Was she to be cursed with them all the days of her life? Damn the Fairleys. All of them. Damn them! Damn them! Damn them! May they rot in hell!

Per quanto uno si sforzi di vivere una sola vita, gli altri ce ne vedranno dentro altre mille, e questa è la ragione per cui non si riesce ad evitare di farsi del male. Da Senza Sangue

Nos ocultaron que era tan difícil. Por tanto trazamos vírgenes imperfectas, sorprendidos al no hallar al final aquellos ojos vacíos —sino, por el contrario, dolor y remordimiento. Por eso nos herimos, por eso morimos. Pero se trata tan sólo de una cuestión de paciencia. De ejercicio.

The condition of the black race, their pain, their wounds, would in his mind become merged with his own: the absent father and the hint of scandal, a mother who had gone away, the cruelty of other children, the realization that he was no fair-haired boy -- that he looked like a 'wop'. Racism was part of that past, his instincts told him, part of convention and respectability and status, the smirks and whispers and gossip that had kept him on the outside looking in

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.' Tatsu.

Shit," he grunted. A minute or so passed. Then he sat up and looked at me. He flexed his leg and flashed his indefatigable grin.

You manage the place?" He smiled. "Something like that." Someone brought a stretcher. The dark-complected guy was gritting his teeth and whimpering. Someone admonished him, "Urusei na! Gaman shiro!" Shut up! Take the pain!

Why are the most painful memories also the sweetest; why does the sweetness always draw us back no matter how long the pain might have kept us away beforehand? I don't know

Why are the most painful memories also the sweetest; why does the sweetness always draw us back no matter how long the pain might have kept us away beforehand?

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

For some people, who they imagine they are does not end where the boundary of the skin meets the world. It continues with the reach of their senses out into the land. If the land in which they live is summarily disfigured or reorganized by industrial development, it causes them psychological pain.

The material would indeed have to be handled carefully and with an awareness of how easily it might descend into riotous. Pain would have to be wrenched out of it; the reader would have to feel with the characters. Not only intellectual content but levels of the ambiguous would have to woven through less Galaxies become merely an attack upon the technological, a curse against the absurdity. Nothing, surely, could be further from the intent of the novel.

turn aside her sorrow with the sword" (ferroque averte dolorem;

the state of the world today. Why is it a place of such misery, pain, and suffering? Because it is not the good creation of the ultimate true God.

He rejected me! I am so hurt and mad. Can I destroy him?

Time healed all wounds. Of course, as some wag had pointed out, it also wounds all heels.

Life is more than just steering a course around pain.

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns

A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail. Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!

The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time. How much of it was her fault? That question haunted her.

The soil of a man's heart is stonier [...] A man grows what he can... and he tends it - Jud Crandall, Chapter 22 (near end) Pet Sematary