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.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

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...

Thanks for forgetting my birthday.. But I missed you the most.. beacuse I love you too !

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...

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

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

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

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

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.

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

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

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...

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist’s suit collection.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Congress’s definition of torture in those laws – the infliction of severe mental or physical pain – leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

My partner once said to me:You should let go of memories,live for the present,you’re holding on to the past for too long.I said to her:-The reason I hold on and cherish those memories is that...

I gave up on cussing – I’d run out of words filthy enough – and just started praying.

You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears. ”What did you do?” I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door. ”The girl who gave you the note?””Yes…””I...

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or...

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the...

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

You’ll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ,Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura....

Also, I’m angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

this life has been a landscape of painand still,flowersbloom in it.

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

I’m trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I’m lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable...