Quotes About Pain

Le pavé lui était moins dur que le cÅ"ur de sa mère.

À de certains moments, Jean Valjean souffrait tant qu'il devenait puéril. C'est le propre de la douleur de faire reparaître le côté enfant de l'homme.

From his very first steps among men, he had felt himself, later on he had seen himself, spewed out, blasted, rejected. Human words were, for him, always a raillery or a malediction. As he grew up, he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught the general malevolence. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.

L'excès de la douleur, comme l'excès de la joie, est une chose violente qui dure peu. Le cÅ"ur de l'homme ne peut rester longtemps dans une extrémité.

La sofferenza sociale incomincia a qualunque età.

He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy of the fruit only arrive later.

Du reste qui dit lumière ne dit pas nécessairement joie. On souffre dans la lumière; l'excès brûle. La flamme est ennemie de l'aile. Brûler sans cesser de voler, c'est là le prodige du génie.

I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture his children and his grandchildren, and hear them cry without being tortured himself.

It was ridiculous. She knew crying wouldn't help, because she cried in her sleep. Night after night she woke with tears on her cheeks, and none of it helped one bit. In fact, the opposite was true. The expression of grief didn't help. Only its suppression would get her through these hard times.

You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time.

Grief is a sneaky thing, always coming and going like some guest you didn't invite and can't turn away. She wants this grief, although she'd never admit it. lately, it's the only thing that feels real.

Abuse can make an animal mean.

But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

Nina had spent a lot of time with injured or dying people, standing witness, revealing universal pain through individual suffering.

Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing where you said you'd be and working to keep that love strong.' 

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing

It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.)

know how much it hurts right now, Elsa. You can't unlove someone even if you want to, even if he breaks your heart. I understand not wanting to wake up. Lord, with this life of ours, who could blame you. But your daughter needs you, especially now. She is as foolish as her father. Ant worries me

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. The

But she knew that sometimes you grabbed hold of whatever you could to stay afloat. And maybe all that black was a shield, a way to say to people: 'don't talk to me, don't approach me, don't ask your ordinary, everyday questions when my world has exploded.

There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown

some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

The truth is, I knew loss. I didn't know grief. Now, I do.