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Quotes About Pain

He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.
~ Wally Lamb
I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.
~ Wally Lamb
You are a steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you. Or, if you prefer we could call you a scrupulous coroner.
~ Wally Lamb
Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
~ Wally Lamb
When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.
~ Wally Lamb
You are a meticulous steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you. Or, if you prefer, we could call you a scrupulous coroner.
~ Wally Lamb
You are a meticulous steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you.
~ Wally Lamb
Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation.
~ Wally Lamb
For five minutes, neither of us spoke. I stared ahead and watched the seat upholstery go blurry from my tears.
~ Wally Lamb
If I talked, I might cry.
~ Wally Lamb
Love was always the thing that did that-smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
~ Wally Lamb
thought about how love was always the thing that did that—smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt. .
~ Wally Lamb
Stop it! My whole life still hurts!
~ Wally Lamb
Ask any of us cynical bastards. to lift up our shirt, and we'll show you where we got shot in the heart.
~ Wally Lamb
What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning wishing you weren't alive.
~ Walt Whitman
It is that something in the soul which says,—Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of all terror and all pain.
~ Walt Whitman
Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
~ Walt Whitman
Love came to me, but it Just wasn't for me. It touched my heart and left it Lying on the shore, and Love smiled at me, but it Just wasn't for me. It glanced my way with pity, but I soon knew it had other plans. Once again my heart was broken; I was all alone to Mourn. ?Carmen, singing the reprise to Love Has Flown Away
~ Walter Dean Myers
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
~ Walter Dean Myers
Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.
~ Walter Isaacson
Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn't wish on anyone, she said.
~ Walter Isaacson
And man is capable of standing superhuman suffering if only he feels sure that there is some point and purpose to it, while much less pain will seem intolerable of devoid of meaning.
~ Walter Kaufmann
His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.
~ Walter Kirn
The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.
~ Walter Mosley