Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

La lujuria es capaz de nacer del dolor. Hay que experimentarlo. Justo en el fragor de los celos más abyectos, el dispendio de la carne se abre paso.

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

I wont cry, it’ll be fine. I’ll take my last breath. Push it out my chest ’til there’s nothing left.

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that...

Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. But sleep...

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

You can’t love your mother or father if you don’t also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

I had a dream about you. A stadium full of children in glowing white robes were singing your name like little angels, and I wondered who you were to be deserving of such praise. Then...

I drive by the spot of my injury, because each time I do, the pain lessens, and it teaches me a lesson.

Let it hurt, Zardi,” Rhidan said. “Take the pain and make it something else. Let it make you stronger and smarter.

Music eliminates my gravity. When I’m singing, I’m a ravenous pterodactyl. I’m alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it’s weighing me down, making me prisoner...

Pain is like love; indescribable

Life wouldn’t be fun if there was no sadness.

Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you’re in has any meaning.””There are things that stand the test of time, there are...

I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like...

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and...

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday

You know he’s not in pain.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Magnus had come to a horrible realization. One that he knew would cause him nothing but pain and suffering from that day forward.But there was no changing the truth of it.He had fallen in love...

With each teardrop; pain hits the floor

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.

Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOUWhen I hold a rose,I see the soft, velvety petalsand smile, becausetucked betweenthose precious petalsis a special gift -the one of a fragrance,pure and sweet.When you hold a rose,you see...

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.

I know my pain threshold. I’m fine, … It’s come down to that point where you got to suck up a lot of stuff.

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother’s death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious...

Pain is all relative.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass.

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at...

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened...

Ever hurt so bad you want to scream … or scream so much it hurts.

my enemies don’t scared me .. but the people who say I love you

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

The past, rich with it’s pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

The problem isn’t that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

I almost never cry, and it’s something I don’t like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I’m in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it...

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action – solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no...

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.