Quotes About Pain

maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.

And my wildly troubled love for you, which labored gently in the garden all through June, then tore the flowers up with its fists in July.

Its sweet bird's nest is full of pain in a distant place

He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a gentleman.

He could feel the only woman he had ever wanted slipping away for the third time, and he knew that this time, the pain of losing her would annihilate her.

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations." "That may be so, but

She was like a wounded animal, he thought, looking at her. Fear and pain were in every line of her—in the taut stillness of her form and in her watchful, wary stare. She wanted to be alone, to lick her wounds, and though she'd been that way all along, he couldn't let her stay that way.

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

Kindness could be so much more painful than cruelty.

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

Me da vergüenza decirlo, esas cosas ya no se usan, pero desde ya confieso que lo mío con él fue totalmente así: agonía de corazón ardido que se desangra de amor.

Placeres y tormentos son iguales, como si el amor y su castigo fueran la misma cosa

I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.

Ellos se limitaban a jugar, tú te desangrabas en el juego.

That seemed to be the most horrible thing of all, that you could lose something so precious to you, something you loved, and still go on.

There had been little hurts and big ones and she could hardly tell them apart, and it all sounded crazy anyway.

I wish I knew why some people suffer so much more than others

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

El dolor puro y completo es tan imposible como la dicha pura y completa".

I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell