Quotes About Pain

Love must be allowed to flow both ways - if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right things be inaction. We fear pain - our own, or that of another.

And so, untold millions screamed out in pain, and then were suddenly silenced. I hope you're happy.

When you've got an arrow stuck in you, it's sometimes best to just yank it out in one pull.

Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it .

You take the breath right out of me You left a hole where my heart should be

It's easy to fall apart completely

I have nothing left to give, I have found the perfect end, you were made to make it hurt, dissapear into the dirt

no longer the lost, no longer the same , and i can see you starting to break

Dear agony, just let go of me, suffer slowly, is this the way it's gotta be?

There are too many people today who instead of feeling hurt are acting out their hurt; instead of acknowledging pain, they're inflicting pain on others. Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they're choosing to live disappointed. Emotional stoicism is not badassery. Blustery posturing is not badassery. Swagger is not badassery. Perfection is about the furthest thing in the world from badassery.

But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. —JAMES A. BALDWIN

Courage is forged in pain, but not in all pain. Pain that is denied or ignored becomes fear or hate.

People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;

Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of one another, to suffocate it with success and material trappings, or to strangle it with our hate, pain will find a way to make itself known.

I can confidently say that stories of pain and courage almost always include two things: praying and cussing. Sometimes at the exact same time.

Perfectionism is not abut healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield.

when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions.

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness–we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but now painfully gone.

So often, when someone is in pain, we're afraid to say, "Yes, this hurts. Yes, this is a big deal. Yes, this sucks." We think our job is to make things better, so we minimize the pain.

I once heard theologian Rob Bell define despair as "the belief that tomorrow will be just like today." When we are in struggle and/or experiencing pain, despair—that belief that there is no end to what we're experiencing—is a desperate and claustrophobic feeling. We can't figure a way out of or through the struggle and the suffering.

In order for forgiveness to happen, something has to die. If you make a choice to forgive, you have to face into the pain. You simply have to hurt.