Quotes About Pain

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? "From the moment you woke up in that hospital, I was different with you, and you were different with me. You were sullen. You were mad. You fought with me constantly. You hated my restrictions. But that wasn't the real reason for your anger, was it?" Lorraine reached down and clutched Annie's fingers.

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? "From

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

we embrace our scars more than our healing

The hands on Eddie's childhood glass then were hard and calloused and red with anger, and he went through his younger years whacked, lashed, and beaten. This was the second damage done, the one after neglect. The damage of violence. It got so that Eddie could tell by the thump of the footsteps coming down the hall how hard he was going to get it.

we embrace our scars more than our healing...We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house, up to her bedroom, and down into a deep dark hole.

Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved

A heart weighs more when it splits in two;

Man suffers for his art.

She had gone quite a distance. He had to backtrack a significant way, stopping to call out every few paces. When at last he found Yorda, the sight of her slender frame sent a stab of pain through Ico's chest as he remembered the girl he had seen in the water. He reached out his hand to her.

If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.

He] [w]ent deep into the cave where wounded men go when they walk around not talking to anyone about what's happening to them on the inside. Also known as Terre Haute.

It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority…. Such an America had to be stopped in the interests not only in the rest of humanity, but also in your own.

I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.

he said when his mother was dying he had been certain she would not die, certain until he was not certain, and when he finally knew she was dying, was not sick but dying, he saw how much she wanted to live, until the pain took that from her, and she wanted to go, or did not want to go, but needed to go, needed to go even more than she wanted to stay, and he had not been ready for that, for his mother to need to leave, and it was a terrible thing to see.

When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.

Another is the despair and emptiness they feel inside. I'm okay, they tell you. I'm fine.

My father's unhappiness was a piece of fine mesh in his throat which all of his words had to push past with some care.

Qui craint de souffrir souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint.

El desear y el gozar nos llevan al mismo dolor

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

Her heart beat with the rattle of broken wings.

Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour -- caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy -- are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.