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Quotes About Pain

Grief shouts, Sorrow remains calm.
~ Joseph Devlin
If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.
~ Joseph F. Girzone
grasped his right hand by the fingers and pulled them all the way back. His wrist made a muted snick noise when it broke, not the loud snap I expected. He let out a loud, agonized scream. His right hand—his gun hand, I assumed—dangled uselessly, like a marionette off its strings.
~ Joseph Finder
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~ Joseph Joubert
Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:
~ Joseph Lanzara
All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]
~ Joseph O'Connor
even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.
~ Joseph O'Neill
Misery crouches beside me, ever larger and ever gentler; pain takes an interest, becomes huge and kind; terror flutters up, and it doesn't even frighten me anymore. And that'a the most desolate thing of all.
~ Joseph Roth
Menuchim, Mendel's son, will grow healthy. There will not be many of his like in Israel. Pain will make him wise, ugliness kind, bitterness gentle, and illness strong. His eyes will be far and deep, his ears clear and full of echoes. His mouth will be silent, but when he opens his lips, they will herald good things.
~ Joseph Roth
He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone for years. He had been alone since that moment when desire had ceased between his woman and himself. He was alone -alone. Wife and children had surrounded him and had hindered him from bearing his pain. Like useless poultices that do not aid healing, they had lain upon his wounds and had merely covered them.
~ Joseph Roth
My belly thinks my throat's clawed out!
~ Erin Hunter
Bluefur moaned.
~ Erin Hunter
I hate being blind. I wish I had never been born!
~ Erin Hunter
There was such pain in his eyes that Hollyleaf felt a rush of sympathy. "I have nowhere else to go," she mewed softly. "You've been a good friend to me, Fallen Leaves. Why would I want to leave you now?
~ Erin Hunter
with agony, and he felt warm, sticky blood pooling beneath his paws. His Clanmates' furious words seemed to be coming from a long way off, as if he were underwater
~ Erin Hunter
Floss is dead.
~ Erin Hunter
Warriors should suffer their pain silently," growled Tigerclaw. He looked Ravenpaw straight in the eye. "You need to learn to hold your tongue." Ravenpaw flinched and dropped his eyes to the ground. "Tigerclaw's a bit grumpy today," Graypaw whispered into Firepaw's ear.
~ Erin Hunter
And I'll never forgive Squirrelflight for rejecting me over and over again. I gave her love and she betrayed me. As though my love was worthless." He scowled. "I'm going to make her suffer more than any other cat. And I'm going to enjoy it.
~ Erin Hunter
that I slipped on some wet leaves, went nose over paws, and crashed into a tree. Great StarClan, it hurt! And what hurt even more was that I was pretty sure Firestar had to stop himself from laughing.
~ Erin Hunter
You're just trying to scare me," she declared. "I'm a BloodClan cat, and BloodClan is the toughest Clan in the forest. A little scratch won't stop—" Fury's speech cut off as a wave of pain seemed to wash over her.
~ Erin Hunter
Do you remember when Frostpaw got scratched in her eye by that stick?
~ Erin Hunter
That was awesome! Now we know how to get our noses whacked.
~ Erin Hunter
Warriors should suffer their pain silently.
~ Erin Hunter
Her bun was baking, but her bloody heart was breaking.
~ Erin McCarthy