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Quotes About Pain

The remembrance of that life is fraught with so much pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope, that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I was doomed to lead it. Whether it lasted for a year, or more, or less, I do not know. I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
~ Charles Dickens
You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.
~ Charles Dickens
For the same reason that I am not a hoarder of money,' said the old man, 'I am not lavish of it. Some people find their gratification in storing it up; and others theirs in parting with it; but I have no gratification connected with the thing. Pain and bitterness are the only goods it ever could procure for me. I hate it. It is a spectre walking before me through the world, and making every social pleasure hideous.
~ Charles Dickens
The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.
~ Charles Dickens
sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a dispetto della mia pace, a dispetto della speranza, a dispetto della felicità, a dispetto di ogni possibile scoraggiamento. Una volta per tutte: non l'amavo di meno perché lo sapevo, e il fatto che lo sapessi non valeva a frenarmi...
~ Charles Dickens
Her reverting to this tone, as if our association were forced upon us and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.
~ Charles Dickens
No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.
~ Charles Dickens
I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.
~ Charles Dickens
achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body
~ Charles Dickens
I know it all, I know it all. Be a brave man, my Gaspard! It is better for the poor plaything to die so, than to live. It has died in a moment without pain. Could it have lived an hour as happily?
~ Charles Dickens
Confieso que me habría gustado gozar de las alegres libertades de un niño, y ser lo bastante mayor para apreciar su dolor.
~ Charles Dickens
Está feliz por se despedir de novo, Estella? Pois, para mim, as despedidas são uma coisa dolorosa. Para mim, a lembrança de nossa última despedida será sempre dolorosa.
~ Charles Dickens
My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.
~ Charles Dickens
youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive,
~ Charles Dickens
Unutmu?um," dedi. "Beni a?latt???n?z? unuttunuz ha?" Onun bu unutkanl???, ilgisizli?i bana gene için için kan a?latt? ki a?lay??lar?n en ac?s? bence budur.
~ Charles Dickens
Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.
~ Charles Eames
And I may return in faded armor Full of patches bent and aged. And I may face the heat of battle, To free the damned and free the slaves. And I may know both pain and rejection, The betrayal of my friends. But the glory that awaits me, Will make it worth it in the end—in the end.
~ Charles F. Stanley
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
~ Charles Frazier
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
~ Charles Frazier
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
~ Charles Frazier
He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.
~ Proverb
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
~ Author unknown, 1940s
To be jealous is to rub salt into your own wounds.
~ Terri Guillemets
Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.
~ Scottish Proverb