You’ve two birds to do your bidding, my fair huntress, but I want you to choose me, to love me above all others, to make the pain in my soul worthwhile… or I would be...

I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that...

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Pain is such a personal thing. I wear mine like a cloak of protection, keeping people at bay. Max just casually removes it from my shoulders and drops it to the ground. If that weren’t...

Life’s pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

The only thing that can stop pain is love.

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell...

I will say nothing… against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have...

There is no question that Saddam has been a pain in the neck ever since,

I felt determined and strong, but sick and weak all at once.

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

If (patients) were lucky, they got whiskey (to deaden the pain). If not, they didn’t get anything.

Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience

Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.

If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

I miss that kind of intimacy. But I think whatever people do; they do in search of pleasure. Or trying to get rid of pain or fear, which is the same thing, basically. Everything, everything...

Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time,...

I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one...

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

He still has some pain and discomfort. He’s just playing through that.

Time does not heal wounds. It’s a body’s ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite the sting. Even neglected, the body begins to take care. To...

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally.

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you.

with the pain jealousy instils and the love hate relationship it creates surely its just easier to appreciate what you have then what you could loose

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who’s hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son’s suffering? But another sound can be heard: the...

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence – their speech centres are destroyed – except for...

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.

I do not claim to be a healer: only God is the Healer.

Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions...

Death says a million words that the heart can’t pen.

My course, navigating the sea of life, begins with a goal sighted in the lens of my telescope.

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie’s Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, William Styron”It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering...

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

mummy bags”, subjected to insulin-induced hypoglycemic comas, forced into seizures with massive doses of the stimulant Metrazol, injected with camphor, drugged into three-week comas with barbiturates and tranquilizers, involuntarily sterilized, and surgically mutilated. Rape by...

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the...

I think I’m in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll – I get back pain!

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human...