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...

A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to alter the status quo, some wish to bring harm to others. In my...

He’s in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

Silent is the ruined land.Man is brutaland the rain does not wash awaythe painor rid the distant memory.It makes it glisten.

There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up...

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked...

I just wished they’d see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn’t want to dedicate my life to something I wasn’t passionate about.

It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who...

I have been loved,” she said, “by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We...

[…] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Já mířím na srdce, ty jenom na ústa,oba už nesmíme zůstati živi,síla už slábne a bolest vyrůstá,soudcuj nám, Bože spravedlivý!

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from...

The unrelenting grip of Soldier’s Syndrome slips finger by slow finger. The marrow’s been affected—emotional leukemia at the deepest level. Transplants of love and friendship aid healing, yet time is still key, and the clock...

Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails.

Never for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as...

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very...

The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.

Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison...

The words I love you, as a unit, are like a knife that only stings once you remove the blade from the relationship.

Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Moons of ache glowed in spaces of her meat and when she moved the moons banged together and stunned.

All is good. Don’t worry, the pain will help you. You’ll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.

You could tell he was in some pain and that definitely showed me a lot. I knew he had that. But that was an actual, real example of some true heart and some true determination.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a...

May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours

There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn’t get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, ‘Thank you?’

There may never be world peace but there will always be love.

A volte la vita era così: dovevi gestire da sola il tuo dolore

The body protects itself, and the same happens in the mind. It occurs sluggishly and imperfectly, a bad job done by indifferent craftsmen, but within minutes an accretion of defence mechanisms starts to form around...