To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I’ll admit, because up to now I’d not done much more than be, and when I wasn’t just being, I’d caused some pain, too.

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not...

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

At some level, it is even tempting to think that since strict materialism is among the most incoherent of superstitions – one that has never really asked the question of the being of things in...

I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them…go around them…take evasive action.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it’s cherished.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a...

Be willing to pass through a short term pain so that you can come out with a long term gain. Don’t fear the horrible waves of the waters; just dare to cross and you get...

Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show...

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that...

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.

She was brave from excess of grief

Pain is nothing but the darkness that leads to the dawn of gain.

Pain is just the price we pay to feel

The pain I felt when I lost my glove was nothing compared to the pain I felt losing my hand as well.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

There’s no pain involved when you pay with plastic. But there is some pain when you go out and you have to part with cash. You worked hard for that green stuff, and you aren’t...

We may have to face God’s truth about our pain–it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers...

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The minute I’m in a little pain … your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

Don’t make it worse by thinking it’s more painful than it actually is.

today’s pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it’s true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of...

I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person’s problems, automatically feel the need to salve...

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

It takes a lot more energy to bury pain than it does to confront it.

Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

Talking won’t change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear,...

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate...

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

There are various wounds to describe our hurts;the deepest one is the most painful.

Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.

Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry–I’ll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn’t reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole’s wolf tozin pumps through her veins,...

so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again.” It is the brain’s own drug for coping with the human condition.

Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won’t they, Rose? You want to ask,’Whose child is this?'”Rose chuckled.”But usually, they’re just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Whereas Rosa’s lips were full and lush, her mother’s were thin and pinched in an expression that hinted at pain so long suppressed and hidden that in hiding from the world, the pain had become...

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

He loves me so he hurts meTo try and make me good.It doesn’t work. I’m just too badAnd don’t do what I should.My memory has so many different sections and, like all survivors, there are...