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Quotes About Pain

I know what it is to have the one you love, the only one, hurt. There's a war in your belly, and your heart's so heavy it doesn't seem as if your body can hold it. This kind of fear doesn't have a name. You can only wait with it. And let us help.
~ J.D. Robb
There are some who believe that without a level of quality, life is only pain.
~ J.D. Robb
as with any ugly time the innocents suffered and paid more than those who incited the ugliness.
~ J.D. Robb
She rubbed away tears, but couldn't stop them. "And he's talking about visitations and miracles, and I'm thinking: But what about before? What about the terror and the pain and the horrible helplessness? What about that? Because I'm not dead, and I can still feel it. Do you have to be dead not to feel it anymore?" Her voice broke. Roarke felt the crack in his own heart.
~ J.D. Robb
Creepy. If I ever did that, popped a kid out—which I think is probably as pleasant a process as having your eyeballs pierced by burning, poisonous sticks, I'd say, 'Whoopee, let's do this again?' Have you recently suffered head trauma?" "Not to my knowledge." "Could be coming. Any second.
~ J.D. Robb
Death was a mean bastard.
~ J.D. Robb
That's unbelievably cruel." "Nothing cruel's unbelievable.
~ J.D. Robb
The Church ruling is very clear. And rules often ignore the human and the individual factor. I think God ignores nothing. I think His compassion for His children is infinite. I can't believe, in my heart, God closes his door to those in pain, to those in desperation.
~ J.D. Robb
People handle pain differently, Peabody said as she bagged the laptop. Like you. You pretend it's not there. Like it's a personal insult and you're going to ignore it so it'll go away. Me, I go straight for the holistic stuff. Early childhood training. But if that doesn't work, it's better living through chemistry. And guys, like my brothers and my dad, they whine. A guy gets sick he reverts to babyhood. Which includes temper tantrums.
~ J.D. Robb
Christ Jesus. Torn between amusement and pain, Roarke dabbed at the blood on his lip. You make romance a dangerous business.
~ J.D. Robb
Her feet were killing her. And it made her imagine traveling back in time, hunting down whoever had invented stiletto heels, and beating the crap out of him.
~ J.D.Robb
war fucks everybody without discretion …
~ J.L. Saint
It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain.
~ J.M. Coetzee
El dolor es la verdad, todo lo demás está sujeto a duda.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Vergnügen ist Mangelware, aber an Schmerz ist heute überall ranzukommen.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Unstrung: that is the word that comes back to him from Homer. The spear shatters the breastbone, blood spurts, the limbs are unstrung, the body topples like a wooden puppet. Well, his limbs have been unstrung and now his spirit is unstrung too. His spirit is ready to topple.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Batwoman: What was it like growing up with him? Nightwing: When I was a kid, I idolized him. Hell... I wanted to be him. But the older I got, the more I realized that I didn't know him at all. How could I? Bruce Wayne is as much a mask as Batman. And I think the only thing behind those masks is pain. A pain he refuses to share with anyone. Batwoman: So what was it like? Nightwing: Lonely.
~ J.M. DeMatteis
Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.
~ J.M. Redmann
Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.
~ J.R. Ward
I love you. Z squeezed his eyes shut. Don't be a tragedy, Bella.
~ J.R. Ward
There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN -Vishous
~ J.R. Ward
What happened to you? she asked. I got hit in the side. With what? A knife.
~ J.R. Ward
He screamed for all he had lost...screamed for the half male he was...screamed for Jane...screamed for who his parents were and what he wished for his sister...screamed for what he had forced his best friend to do...He screamed, and screamed until there was no breath, no consciousness, no nothing. No past or present. Not even himself anymore. And in the midst of the chaos, in the strangest way, he became free.
~ J.R. Ward