Pain Quotes

Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love..
One word
frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

William Goldman

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Ram Mohan

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Jourdane Erasquin

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Roland Barthes

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

Lauren Dane

I laugh because your pain is amusing.. Lauren Dane
I laugh because your pain is amusing.

Raymond Carver

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

Mike L. Hopper

Some adventures should never be repeated.

Anne Rice

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Jerilee Kaye

If I get a blessing, everytime you try to hurt me, then welcome pain!

Biswash Ghalay

Pain
At last pain won over time
She decided to last her pain,
Tied a rope around her neck
And lasted the pain away.

Haruki Murakami

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

José N. Harris

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Paulo Coelho

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Ernest Hemingway

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Jodi Picoult

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Elle Newmark

...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.

Neil Gaiman

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...

Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...

Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.

Veronica Roth

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Jacqueline Carey

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Neil Gaiman

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's
Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Face your life,
It's pain,
It's pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.

Jon Bon Jovi

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

David Rovics

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.

Nikki Rowe

Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.

Sheeba Shamsudeen

I wish to get you out of my veins, but you are my third skin; I can't rub you off.

Jourdane Erasquin

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.

Omar Khayyam

This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.

Surgeo Bell

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Surgeo Bell

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

Surgeo Bell

Most men are blinded by the words "Bad Bitches" and end settling for less!

Surgeo Bell

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.

Surgeo Bell

WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

Surgeo Bell

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.

Surgeo Bell

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.
Can't be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone

Surgeo Bell

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised.

Surgeo Bell

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

Till Lindemann

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

Don Roff

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

Brenda Peterson

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves - and often beautiful.

Jenim Dibie

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Jenim Dibie

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Vivian Amis

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Christopher Hawke

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.

Jourdane Erasquin

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Paul Hoffman

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Monica Ali

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Sue Monk Kidd

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Prem Prakash

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

Cecil Castellucci

Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten.

Markus Zusak

She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on
She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.

John L. Parker Jr.

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

Emma Donoghue

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Ram Mohan

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.

Jill Telford

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

Lity Munshi

without deep pain, pen does not bleed to write.

Isabella Poretsis

When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?

Isabella Poretsis

Just because someone says it is so doesn't mean it is.

Karen Quan

I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.

Ashly Lorenzana

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Kevin Keenoo

This moment is yours. The pain flowing into your life is an outcome of the choices you made. Don’t avoid the pain. Accept it. Avoidance will increase the depth of your pain while acceptance will free you from worries, uncertainty and fear, and ultimately you’ll grow out of it as a stronger human being.

Mother Teresa

The moment passed - but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

VicDo

Great knowledge, makes a great pain, in the world of pain.

Lev Grossman

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Orson Scott Card

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright,
He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

Carl R. White

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

Noah Levine

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Chris Dietzel

Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?

Virginia Woolf

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.

C.M Maria

You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know... unless he knows something we do not...

John Geddes

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Heema Shirvaikar

This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.

Chila Woychik

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

Simona Panova

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...
Dead silence.
Literally dead.

Anthony Liccione

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Darynda Jones

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

Stephen King

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

John Zakour

I remembered the last time I put this thing into my eye it was more painful than watching old political speeches while listening to the “Macarena” and having a root canal performed by an angry, clumsy chimp.

Ankur Kumar Shah

Dreams and Happiness are...drugs. And the pain that follows is not less than a sharp knife...or a sharp-nail. It bleeds without blood. You just feel it. With every sense you have got, on every single inch of earth, in every tiny part of the minute you live. It compels you to feed...yourself...

Ariel Seraphino

I dont know why, but I feel some pain when she knew I was writing a lot of writing for her and when she suddenly wrote one, it's not for me. You can't go on with the situation like that, it could have kill you at the exact moment.

Shayne Azad

I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny.

Bauvard

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

John Geddes

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

Paula Danziger

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Ashly Lorenzana

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

James Chartrand

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.

Haruki Murakami

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.

T.H. White

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

Ann Brashares

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Charles Bukowski

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

Jonathan Tropper

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Emily Brontë

And I pray one prayer-I repeat it till my tongue stiffens-Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you-haunt me, then!...Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Kelley Armstrong

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Rachel Ward

You get use to someone - start to like them, even - and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

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