Quotes About Pain

You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love." So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.

Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.

In spite of the terrible pain I was in, I tried to help name the hot sauces. For the allegedly mild one, which tasted like nuclear fall-out, I suggested Hot as Fuck. For the medium one, which tasted like seven lit cigarettes applied firmly to the tongue, I suggested You'd Have to Be an Idiot to Try This, and for the Scorpion sauce, which was so hot I think it gave me permanent nerve damage, I suggested Lawsuit Followed by Complete Financial Collapse. She ignored all my suggestions...

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

the moment I opened up this once locked box of childhood good times, I also allowed all the pain of being deserted, alone, and friendless out too.

She was shrinking into a horrible, ugly thing that no one wanted to see, or speak to, or have anything to do with at all, so she had to get plucked out like a weed, or crushed like a disgusting, mouldy crumb.

hip looked dislocated.

Troubles. They stick to skin like glue, like gum to the sole of a shoe. They slide into the crevices of your heart, slither into your veins, and tug at you from the inside until they become something dark and heavy and not so easy to shake. The

bruises, but as she rubbed at them—making a horrible

Please make the pain go away, he thought, uncertain whether he was referring to her or to the headache.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

If drugs could heal what was broken inside her, she'd be an addict. Who wouldn't? Sometimes life hurt, and you just had to suck it up. It

wailed when she'd

and those of us who've been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again." Over and over and over. Jo

Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this better than anyone.

Why do people hurt other people? I murmur. Lila laughs. Because they can, sweetheart. I look at the face in the mirror, at that sad face. That can't be the reason Lila leans in. Her face is next to mine.... ...Sometimes they just can't help it, she says. They don't mean to hurt anyone. It just happens. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing ? Not unless you've got a magic wand, love.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

The words fell out of my mouth like slivers of shattered glass.

grief is such a strange guest, making its home in a person like it's a new thing that no one has ever experienced before. It is different for every person.