There is No Pleasure without Pain

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

Once I get going and try to give it a little oomph, it gives me that shooting pain, … It’s like someone stabbed me in that area.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

Pain lost it’s power when other things became more important.Kahar didn’t need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)

I wanna know Maddy Walker. The real one. The one who stole my heart.

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once...

There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal.

I’d just killed some of the best riders in the world – and I was clean. I’d taken nothing – no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself...

Rejection, though–it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

You have to be allowed to grow. Find a way to reveal pain, people are happy. Find cost savings and a way to improve processes, allowing you to get support for these things.

A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.

One thing I know is that Gabe is a tough guy. He’s a guy that is not afraid of pain. So when I see everybody running on the field to get him up, I knew...

And then a silver hare, a boar, and a fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s heads: The dementors fell back before the creatures’ approach. Three more people had arrived out of the darkness to...

Everybody has losses – it’s unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel...

The higher consciousness are the ones who get the most pain.

Don’t complain. It’s just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling… Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!

There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won’t bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past...

It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.

we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

I don’t think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention. The act of loving your fear, to nurture this insecurity for a greater...

Love is the only wound that feels good and is both self-inflicted and caused by others. I should sell emotional Band-Aids.

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the...

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That’s what music does.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being...

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the body, what a hard fact it was.That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should havespent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He’dhave had...

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

Lord keep us from evil so that it may not cause us pain.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

I have prayed many times that God would give me wisdom and I concur with Solomon here when he says that with “much wisdom there is much grief.” The more you know, the harder life...

No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It’s just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability...

Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide...

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.

Weep hard as much as you need; but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.

It’s just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

Nothingness…there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed…

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her...

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early ’90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer...

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying...