Quotes About Pain

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.

It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

There remained a hole drilled through his heart.

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics.

neither knowledge nor imagination comes easily, it is buried in the pain of one's forgotten experience, and so one must work to find it, one must occasionally exhaust oneself by digging into the self in order to perceive the outside.

Bessie could not keep from thinking, "His nightmare will be over, but mine will never be.

She had built up a lot of control over all these months, but suddenly it just hurt so bad that she bawled right there at the table, two seconds after she saw the broken ring. It was the first real big cry she'd had about Gary in a long time, a month or so. She was not sure there was any such thing anymore as Gary. She didn't know if that was where her belief rested. He was a lot out of her mind. He might really be dead.

it becomes clear that chronometric time is a homogeneous succession lacking all particularity. It is always the same, always indifferent to pleasure or pain. Mythological time, on the other hand, is impregnated with all the particulars of our lives: it is as long as eternity or as short as a breath, ominous or propitious, fecund or sterile.

Las épocas viejas nunca desaparecen completamente y todas las heridas, aun las más antiguas, manan sangre todavía.

Una persona sufrida es menos sensible al dolor que las que apenas si ha sido tocadas por la adversidad.

Past epochs never vanish completely, and blood still drips from all their wounds, even the most ancient.

Ahora bien, todo desprendimiento provoca una herida

And she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own, 'I see the vision of a poor weak soul striving after good. It was not cut short; and, in the end, it learnt, through tears and much pain, that holiness is an infinite compassion for others; that greatness is to take the common things of life and walk truly among them; that' - she moved her white hand and laid it on her forehead - 'happiness is a great love and much serving. It was not cut short; and it loved what it had learnt - it loved

De um jeito ou de outro, se ela foi embora, foi porque eu permiti: quando a dor entra em nossa casa, quase sempre é com a nossa própria chave.

All pain is the same.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.