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.

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

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

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...

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

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...

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...

I must believe that it is easier when it isn’t a struggle to take every breath, when it isn’t torture to live every day, when it doesn’t hurt to see the new sun rise. I...

When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is… because that is what it...

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first… it’s amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until...

It’s good. It’s not an issue. There is no pain.

Poetry and beautyare born out of pain.This is their glory,this is our gain.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

once upon a time I would’ve killed to feel numb, like I do now. I would have reveled in the abyss of emptiness that fills my heart. the fear of the unknown would’ve made me...

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

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

When you feel life is tough.. take a trip around a nearby hospital and all your worries will start looking smaller.

I feel like we have to deal with things, so we realize change! Change comes after pain and pain comes after truth. Truth is hurtful.

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

He’s pain-free so we’re fairly confident that he’ll certainly be right by the first round, but hopefully be able to get one or two practice matches in.

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

The world now follows a zoo culture where in the weaker ones are caged and the stronger ones watch playfully –

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.

I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

Caidi to Jacin: “Do you know why I love you?”Jacin: “No.”Caidi: “Because you love so big, even when you don’t want to. Because you can’t help it. And because you need it back, but you...

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed...

I’ve read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and Gravity’s Rainbow, and the Story of O. First you have to have pleasure—then pain.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way...

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I did not want to see, but HE was standing next to my bed every...

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life...

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still...

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.