Quotes About Pain

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

The pain you go through in life doesn't really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.' The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. That, he said, softly, is a terrible self-indictment. Worse than an unanswered prayer? Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school? A poem by Charles Hanson Towne

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

I HAVE A HEARTBURN AND DIAHREA AT THE MOMENT--LIFE'S ABITCH. CHAT LATER? [signed] SORE TUSH

Love her or some other guy will. Love like there is no tomorrow, cause there may not be. Never take what/who you have for granted cause it will end up turning into something you had. Do what it takes to keep her happy at any cost to you're pride. Treat her like she is you're queen & She will make you feel like a king. Love lost is more painful than an unhappy marriage.

The only whole heart is a broken heart.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

Why didn't I feel this before?" she whispered. "Because we embrace our scars more than our healing," Lorraine said. "We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either.

The power of misery is its long shadow. It darkens everything within view.

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart

So many people are in pain—no matter how smart or accomplished—they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

If you hold back on the emotions — if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them — you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.

His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.

What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

Even God couldn't be that cruel.

It has always been a mystery to me, Annabelle, how beauty and anguish can share the same moment.