Sometimes holding on to something that you still believe in is reason enough to justify some pain.

I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that.””I think I’ll stay right where I am, thank you,” I said. “And you, you stay where you are, or...

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

The truth hurts, only when it can heal.

Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to be slow,patience”.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you’ve been holding on to more dearly than Him.

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn’t understand my own feelings. And because I can’t understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that...

The past cannot hurt you. It’s all in your head.

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we...

Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.

The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.

Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.

Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be...

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

Deep in the recesses of our mind is a trophy shelf on which sits many bottles. Each bottle contains the pain of a hurt that we have overcome and for which we have a scar...

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it...

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they’re gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in...

All suffering comes bearing a gift. Every pain is a portal. You must look at the hand of your suffering to see the gift it offers and peer into your pain to see where it...

When your mind says “Forget them” but your heart knows that you can’t.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their...

What you see will hurt you; what you don’t see will hurt you.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

But I want her, I must have her, I shall die if I do not get her – false, proud, black-hearted daughter of a dog that she is! I cannot sleep and my food has...

If she’s in pain now she doesn’t show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

Domāju, ka sāpes ir stāvoklis, kas parādās pirmāk, pirms valodas un vārdiem, tāpēc jebkādi pūliņi tās izteikt ir gluži veltīgi.

Dante laughed. “No cold soup, no goat cheese. I’ll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse.””And for you it’s no food at all. No sleep. And no tunnels.””I’m low maintenance.””Is that what you are?...

The most important parts of your life will be marked by pain.

When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.

Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain — it becomes your identity.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution – we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species – the brain processes it at...

The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood i lie.Dawn follows every dusk, and all that rises – fall it must.So, my...

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even...

I hate that I got dealt shitty parents! I hate how you make me feel like scum! I hate that you’re always running away from me! And I hate that I ever fucking gave you...

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or ‘feelings’. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist’s definition...

Why couldn’t he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were...

I walk the sand alone,and feel it stirring as I roam,upon this breathing earth,where wave on wave begins new birth.I sense a grand facade,where colors paint the hand of God.And in remorseful pain,I dance the...

It might be a good idea to get that pain (that bothers him when he cuts) to go away.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to...

I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering...

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide...

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

It doesn’t matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will...

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

All this last day Frodo had not spoken, but had walked half-bowed, often stumbling, as if his eyes no longer saw the way before his feet. Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore...

I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some...