Quotes About Pain

The tumult of her mind was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself, and, from actual weakness, sat down and cried for half an hour.

You men have none of you any hearts." 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in

it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as

Mas será de outro. E se esse for exactamente aquele, de entre todos os outros, que eu menos suporto... Mas não continuarei aqui, para perder toda a sua piedosa boa vontade, mostrando que onde fui mais magoado, menos posso perdoar. Adeus... Deus a abençoe.

Você me fere a alma: sou meio agonia, meio esperança.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...

I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I love you. Most ardently.

La juventud y el buen humor de la mañana forman una feliz analogía, de poderosos efectos; y si la alteración no es lo bastante fuerte como para mantener los ojos sin cerrar, seguro que estos se abrirán a una sensación de dolor suavizado y a una esperanza más clara.

In lei rimaneva il ricordo di molte sensazioni di dolore, un tempo profondissimo, ma ora più mite; ricordi di rari barlumi di dolcezza, di momenti d'amicizia e di riconciliazione, che non poteva più aspettarsi di rivivere, ma che non avrebbero cessato d'esserle cari. Lasciava tutto questo alle sue spalle; tutto tranne il ricordo che quelle cose erano state

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.

And don't forget that all the animals I've been talking about are individuals with personalities. Many--and especially pigs--are highly intelligent, and each one knows fear, misery, and feels pain.

She said there's always beauty, even when there's pain and suffering. She learned not to hide from the darkness, just not to get lost in it.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her. She knew because there was no passion, and the only time she had felt passion, it had come with a price.

But the thing is, since I've met someone, everyone started banging on and on about my not-so-secret admirer. I'd started to find it quite exciting. I'd forgotten that I don't get involved because the pain might not be worth it. All that flattery and attention distracted me from any pain that might have been lurking around the corner. But course, the pain got me in the end. It always does.

You can't grow as a person," she said sadly, ignoring my joke, "when you close yourself off emotionally. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.

Kažu da je bol najja?i kada te neko prvi put povredi i da svaki slede?i put boli manje i ja verujem da u tome ima zrno istine, ali tako?e kažu da svaki put kada ti neko slomi srce granice izdržljivosti postaju sve manje, dok na kraju ne postaneš tvrda i cini?na i nespremna da ikome išta daš.

there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving, rolling over so the tears can drip out of your ears and settling in for a long sleep.

Live in the present, he said, and trust in God through darkness, pain and fear. Then, as he quoted the biblical passage from Corinthians God will not suffer you to be tested more than you are able

She could not cry. She could only sweat. Suffering was a winter luxury.