We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

L’amore non esiste per renderci felici, ma per dimostrarci quando sia forte la nostra capacità di sopportare il dolore.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Life is short unless agony is long.

God always provides a pleasant memory to help ease the pain of a bad experience.

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Love has an extreme capacity to offer everything we need but not without extreme pain. Anyone who tastes the sweet fruit -joy of love, deserves to taste the bitter fruit -pain of separation. Nobody should...

‘Karma,’ Daskalos explained, ‘has to be paid off in one way or another. This is the universal law of balance. So when we love someone, we may assist him in paying part of his debt....

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God’s grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love...

Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

Getting habitual to her so much that you can’t think anything else but her all the time and one day she leaves. It is suddenly an existence crisis. It is painful. Everything feels worthless and...

And a rock feels no pain;And an island never cries.

Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

reality sucks, that’s probably why we dream. Why our bodies need sleep. So we can escape. Escape this earth, at least just for a little while. Everynight, we get to go away. Sleep is the...

Saying goodbye isn’t hard, but saying it to something you care about is what’s hard because you don’t want to forget the emotional pain and happiness they caused in your life.

The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time passes in the smallest of pieces, and pieces still smaller than those.This is...

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Well, you could rejuvenate a man like a tree. Cut off bad memories of him, scrape off all pain, all disappointments, like dead tissue; cut off mistakes, stupid decisions, mistakes, x-ray thoughts. And that it...

t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that’s the problem with being alive. You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the...

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

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

It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.

There is, of course, some comfort to be derived from the thought that everything that occurs at the level of secondary causality – in nature or history – is governed not only by a transcendent...

You’ve no idea the restraint I’ve created. A word, which in a past life, never held special meaning for me, flows now through the blood of my veins as if to remind me it was...

It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, ‘Wake up! Love! Pray!

I think suicide is the most painful minute a person can go through, but it somehow may be beautiful to devout to that pain with the joy of it’s promise; silence, because we have no...

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

La lujuria es capaz de nacer del dolor. Hay que experimentarlo. Justo en el fragor de los celos más abyectos, el dispendio de la carne se abre paso.

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

I wont cry, it’ll be fine. I’ll take my last breath. Push it out my chest ’til there’s nothing left.

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that...

Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. But sleep...

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

You can’t love your mother or father if you don’t also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

I had a dream about you. A stadium full of children in glowing white robes were singing your name like little angels, and I wondered who you were to be deserving of such praise. Then...

I drive by the spot of my injury, because each time I do, the pain lessens, and it teaches me a lesson.

Let it hurt, Zardi,” Rhidan said. “Take the pain and make it something else. Let it make you stronger and smarter.

Music eliminates my gravity. When I’m singing, I’m a ravenous pterodactyl. I’m alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it’s weighing me down, making me prisoner...

Pain is like love; indescribable