Quotes About Pain

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

The truth is what hurts

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.