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Quotes About Pain

I sat on the verandah steps and wept for the loss of my home, for everything that I held to be precious. I tried to muffle the sound of my weeping, but my voice cried out loudly as if it were the only weapon I had against those who had destroyed my life.
~ Shyam Selvadurai
And you will learn that sometimes pain can do what even joy cannot, such as exposing the vanity of earth's trifles and filling your heart with longing for the peace of heaven.
~ Siang-Yang Tan
Joy was not the raw material of humor . . . The dark source was sorrow.
~ Sid Fleischman
behind each word is a meaning. Some words are friendly; some are not. Some will cause you pain. Some will make you cry. Some will protect you. Some will deceive you. Still, words and their meaning can be indispensable in preparing you for the battles you must win in order to survive. The
~ Sidney Poitier
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
His wet white face and miserable eyes Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs: But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fell His troubled voice: he did the business well. (First verse of Died of Wounds)
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I'm not only grumpy, I'm also short and wide. Actually, if people want to be mean, they can call me fat and be close to right. Short wide guys normally don't have much a chance in sports. But I have two things going for me: I don't feel pain and I have quick hands.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
~ Sigmund Freud
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.
~ Sigmund Freud
Youth burdened with full knowledge of just how sad and painful aging is I would not call youth at all.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Orks ir tas, kurš priec?jas, kad b?rns cieš, bet v?l laim?g?ks tas ir, ja b?rns mirst.
~ Silvana de Mari
As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet.
~ Silvia Hartmann
A veces morir es simplemente irse de un lugar, abandonar a todas las personas y las costumbres que uno quiere. Por ese motivo el exiliado que no desea morir sufre, pero el exiliado que busca la muerte, encuentra lo que antes no había conocido: la ausencia del dolor en un mundo ajeno." —La continuación
~ Silvina Ocampo
I promise to feel no other pain if I cease to feel the one that's killing me now.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.
~ Simon R. Green
To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you're hurting.
~ Simon R. Green
I've known what it feels like, when your whole life hurts so much that you're ready to die, just for the pain to stop. A little less stubbornness, a little more resolve at certain moments, and I might have been one of these poor trapped souls...
~ Simon R. Green
Why don't you just shoot yourself in the head now and get it over with?
~ Simon R. Green
An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A
~ Simon Schama
Heartbreak is an agonizing disease that you're delighted to have
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Nijedan dan, nijedan sat, nijedan minut nije prošao a da ga nije razdirala želja da je vidi, da joj pri?a, da je dodiruje. Žudeo je da se nasla?uje gledaju?i je, da napoji svoja se?anja, tako da posle, kad više ne bude s njom, može u mislima da je dodirne i oseti. (...) Ali ljubav uvek ra?a patnju. (...) Može li to potrajati? Ne smemo gubiti ni trenutka, pomislio je.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore