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Quotes About Pain

This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror. It's the power that thrills him. Ultimate power, over life and death.
~ Tess Gerritsen
night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged
~ Tess Gerritsen
Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.
~ Tess Gerritsen
No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.
~ Tess Gerritsen
This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I did not attend her anniversary gathering. I knew it would not bring her back. I didn't want to remember anymore. It was too painful. The
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Other people's actions are the result of their own pain and not the result of any intention to hurt you.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
When a person's speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
This is the nonduality principle of Buddhism: there is nothing to throw away. If a person has never suffered, he or she will never be able to know happiness. If a person does not know what hunger is, he or she will never know the joy of eating every day. Thus pain and suffering are a necessary condition of our understanding, of our happiness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
When you have a toothache, you call your dentist and ask for an emergency appointment to relieve your pain. You know deeply at that point that not having a toothache is happiness. Yet later, when you don't have a toothache, you forget and do not treasure your non-toothache.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
The suffering and the quarreling in a family don't begin with unkindness, they begin with one person's pain and stress.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Ich liebe dich ja… wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen.
~ Theodor Fontane
watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone?
~ Theodora Goss
It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache. - Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears.
~ Theodore Dreiser
the past was so painful at any point. It seared and burned.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain, And found out all I could of all desire;
~ Theodore Roethke
My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we're having a toothache, we know that not having a toothache is a wonderful thing. Yet when we don't have a toothache, we're still not happy. A non-toothache is very pleasant.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Withough suffering you cannot grow
~ Thich Nhat Hanh