It’s faith that got me here. So it’s faith that will get me through.

We’d been assured it wouldn’t be painful, though she might experience ‘discomfort,’ a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn’t yours.

I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you’re going to have to tell someone who...

Come t’e’ picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates–hence the deadly frost–the free power of the mind–the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for...

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting...

I wonder if he had a Cathy and who she was.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

Weißt du, die Leute lügen, wenn sie sagen, nichts sei so stark wie die Liebe. Das ist eine der größten und gemeinsten Lügen überhaupt. Liebe ist nicht stark. Sie ist so verletzlich wie nur irgendwas....

You didn’t get past something like that, you go through it — and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

… he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

When the swelling goes down and the pain goes down, we’ll see how it goes.

I have a little theory that I’d like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?” More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke...

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.

It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a screen for my eyes only. The pain and broken heart were blocked off...

I made you better and you made me worse.

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam’d of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce...

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You’ll find the treasure.

No. Go through the fire and I’ll be with you.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a...

If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal...

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful about it.It was awful.

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant...

You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening.

When he sees my pain, the old and new, he pushes me to give it to him. To give in to his need to consume all of it and make it his.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

I spoke to Michael today and he said he had some pain but he had a scan today and they said that’s normal. He was very optimistic, very confident that he’ll be okay.

These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells...

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul’s endurance in faith and hope and love in spite of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.

Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

That was what I wanted, but I don’t need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain...

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

Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.

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

There is no substantive difference between being stabbed to death in the living beating heart with a physical knife and feeling the plunging stabbing pain of betrayal.

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Lets get back together, he said. Easier said than done.

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!

Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops…

When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you...

Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.

Sometimes there’s only so much you can do. I think Matt would play if it was just the pain. They’re worried that if your jaw is broke and you get hit again, what can happen.

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.