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Quotes About Pain

his very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down.
~ Bram Stoker
There must be no concealment, she said. Alas! We have had too much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!
~ Bram Stoker
Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.
~ Bram Stoker
I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be.
~ Bram Stoker
You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge that you do not die - nay nor think of death - till this great evil be past.
~ Bram Stoker
I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it; even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself ("counteract feelings of 'numbness' Ã¢â'¬Â). I was demonstrating, externally and irrefutably, an inward condition.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Es más fácil morir de nada que de dolor, ante el dolor uno puede rebelarse, ante la nada, no.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Tužne uspomene dugo drijemaju u jednom od bezbrojnih šupljina sje?anja, godinama, desetlje?ima, ?itavog života. Zatim jednog lijepog dana isko?e na površinu, bol koja ih prati iznova je prisutna, snažna i oštra kao onog davnog dana.
~ Susanna Tamaro
I ricordi tristi sonnecchiano per tanto tempo in una delle innumerevoli caverne del ricordo, stanno li anche per anni. Per decenni, per tutta una vita. Poi, un bel giorno, tornano in superficie, il dolore che li aveva accompagnati è di nuovo presente, intenso e pungente come lo era quel giorno di tanti anni fa.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Die Zunge geht immer dahin, wo der Zahn weh tut.
~ Susanna Tamaro
We live in a cruel world, Isabel, he says, without looking at me. I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
~ Sylvia Bambola
Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]
~ Sylvia Boorstein
life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Life is painful, suffering is optional.
~ Sylvia Boorstein PhD
The heart did ache, actually. She felt a dull grind of lack somewhere near her diaphragm, a pain that occupied the space of something removed. A phantom limb. A scratchy hunger. The wasting muscle fatigue of want.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
I WAS seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy's arms, kissing him... It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked he ass in self-defense.
~ Sylvia Day
I'm losing my mind without you.
~ Sylvia Day
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.
~ Sylvia Day
I was seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy's arms, kissing him.... His eyes grew hot and dark. It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked his ass in self defense.
~ Sylvia Day
But I want you to know that even though the way you've handled this is fucking wrong and you've broken my heart into millions of tiny pieces and I've lost all respect for you, I don't blame you for how you feel after seeing those pictures of me. I get it.
~ Sylvia Day
You're toying with one of my people," she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth. "You never used to be cruel" "I used to have a heart, he drawled and then someone broke it.
~ Sylvia Day
Because you deserved it! Because you should know what it feels like! How bad it hurts, you self-centered asshole!
~ Sylvia Day