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Quotes About Pain

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
~ Chetan Bhagat
When the heart breaks, the part of the brain that stores data on past dates works perfectly.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Girls have no idea how much it hurts when our love is rejected. Yet, men are expected to keep trying and take hits all the time.
~ Chetan Bhagat
E qualquer coisa que eu recorde agora, vai doer. A memória é uma vasta ferida.
~ Chico Buarque
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.
~ Chidiock Tichborne
The MOSQUITO... bites the 1st time as sharp and natural as red pepper does.
~ Josh Billings
Love is a four-letter word.
~ Author unknown, 1920s
For index now as he stretched forth Derwent, arrested, cried, "Dost bleed?" Touching the naked skin: "Look here— A living fresco!" And indeed, Upon the fore-arm did appear A thing of art, vermil and blue, A crucifixion in tattoo, With trickling blood-drops strange to see...
~ Herman Melville, Clarel
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
~ Latin proverb
But a queer thing is — this is personal — however painful a thing has been when I look back it is no longer painful, or no more painful than music is. In fact it is just that.
~ Katherine Mansfield
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.
~ Mark Twain, 1867
O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.
~ Terri Guillemets
Any real writer — or reader — has had a papercut on the forehead at least once.
~ Terri Guillemets
A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.
~ Terri Guillemets
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.
~ Francis Thompson
The broken heart is broadest.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881
I'm a butterfly that's hurt its wings against a hard world to-night.
~ F. E. Baily, Dolf, 1921
i vomit confusion & butterflies i sweat fear and i bleed dread i fall deaf from society's lies i gag on metallic tastes of pain i run from the reek of regret i save my minutes & lose my hours i dance on the minefield of mind i freeze my worries for later...
~ Terri Guillemets
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~ Stephen King, "The Body," 1982
A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.
~ Jewish Saying
Get your money when the patient is in pain.
~ Proverb
The tongue rolles there where the teeth aketh.
~ Proverb
The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.
~ Proverb
Better tooth out than always ache.
~ James Howell's Proverbs