Quotes About Pain

Pain is pain,' she said. 'It needs no description.

Pain was pain, and it insisted on making itself known.

Gregorovich, what's happening on the station? Kira asked. Chaos and pain, the shipmind replied.

The pain is of our own making, Kira." He pressed a finger against her forehead. "It only hurts as much as we let it.

Something like hearing that your grandmother got her whole body pulled through the wringer on a washing machine, or something like hearing about a horse slipping on the ice and landing on some kid you went to school with.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.

When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.

Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.

Let it go, David. It will only stir up old wounds.' 'Who cares about old ones? It's the new ones that bleed.

In this life, so many things can twang your heart.

There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.

What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit.

It was so bad I had to hit myself in the hand with a tack hammer to take my mind off the pain it caused me

Everybody's at war with different things…I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

So the darkness is there for the sake of light. Evil exists so that good might also be. Pain exists to make room for healing.

And in that moment I experience a revelation. I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: God does not exist.

Quase inebriado,gozava então da sua presença nas coisas que via,e através delas desejava-a,satisfazendo-me à vista delas.E,no entanto,sentia uma dor,porque ao mesmo tempo sofria por uma ausência,mesmo sendo feliz com tantos fantasmas de uma presença.

El amor tiene efectos muy diversos; primero ablanda el alma, luego la enferma… Pero más tarde ésta siente el fuego verdadero del amor divino, y grita, y se lamenta, y es como piedra que en el horno se calcina, y se deshace y crepita lamida por las llamas.

His mouth was almost incapable of managing a smile, and altogether he gave the impression of dealing with the pain of existence out of some sort of distasteful duty.

Como embriagado, gozaba de la presencia de la muchacha en las cosas que veía, y, al desearla en ellas, viéndolas, mi deseo se colmaba. Y, sin embargo, en medio de tanta dicha, sentía una especie de dolor, en medio de todos aquellos fantasmas de una presencia, la penosa marca de una ausencia.

As an ancient proverb says, three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works. And aches. -Adso of Melk

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.