Quotes About Pain

Loss. A known absence. If you didn't know it, it would be nothing, which it is, of course, a nothing of another kind, as acutely felt as a blister, but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You

All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness. 'I suffer' becomes 'You will suffer'. And let us not lie: Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target. However destructive in the long run, it serves a useful purpose for a time

The ache of love feels remarkably like the ache of grief or guilt. Emotional pain isn't distinguishable by feeling, only by language. We give a name to misery, not because we recognize the feeling but because we know its context.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

Unrequited love's a bore.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.