I want you to learn that if you don’t keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won’t...

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

emotions are important.

When we cry out to God as a result of our pain and spiritual brokenness He hears us and is compelled to move on our behalf because of His love for us. However, when we...

Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated.

This singularity of meaning–I was my face, I was ugliness–though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to...

[regarding a toothache] It made me realize how much one’s mind is at the mercy of one’s physical well-being, as at times I felt quite demented. My admiration for people who withhold information under torture...

You really need stitches,” she tells me.”Or you’re going to have a scar.” I try not to laugh. Stitches aren’t going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken...

BETRAYALNo failure in Life, whether of love or money, is ever really that simple; it usually involves a type of a shadowy betrayal, buried in a secret, mass grave of shared hopes and dreams.That universal...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind...

Six monthsIt been six months since you passed How long must these feelings of loss last ?It’s been six months since you died,on the surface it appears I never really cried. I hide away my...

Strange how we decorate pain.These ribbons, for instance,and the small hard teardrops of blood.Who are they for?Do we think the dead care?

I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare...

We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong,” – Jesse Carlisle

Some adventures should never be repeated.

There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered...

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn’t understand.

Hey, if you’d wanted to avoid ‘this,’ you shouldn’t have lured me last night. Now it’s too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of...

I guess I just have a high threshold for pain.

A life I didn’t choose chose me.

But they both agreed that it’s always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn’t go any further than that.

Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.

You heard him say it? ‘Pain’s the only evil I know about.’ You heard that?”The monk nodded solemnly.”And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?””Yes.””Dearest...

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature’s way

If I die, does that stop my pain, or just makes it worse?

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

His legs, now unsplinted but as crooked and ugly as something glimpsed through a rip in the canvas of a freak-show tent, hung down. The left, with the salt-dome where the knee had been, was...

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life’s joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth....

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. ‘Death...

True pain teaches us to grow. You aren’t finished yet. Dylan needs you.

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one’s fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the...

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn’t want to force anybody to want to.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It...

In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Fiquei ali, com o corpo moído e doído, as lágrimas correndo pelo meu rosto, às vezes chegando aos meus lábios, me fazendo sentir seu gosto salgado. Em minha cabeça, eu tinha apenas fantasias. Um monte...