…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the body, what a hard fact it was.That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should havespent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He’dhave had...

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

Lord keep us from evil so that it may not cause us pain.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

I have prayed many times that God would give me wisdom and I concur with Solomon here when he says that with “much wisdom there is much grief.” The more you know, the harder life...

No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It’s just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability...

Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide...

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.

Weep hard as much as you need; but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.

It’s just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

Nothingness…there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed…

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her...

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early ’90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer...

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying...

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It’s just the pain.

They said she killed herself.Everyone was saying It. What started out as a rumor, quietly whispered among small gatherings of polite people, quickly grew into something that was openly discussed in a large gatherings of...

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?That the anguish of...

When it comes to love, I realize that I am masochistic. They might consider me crazy for loving you despite everything that we have been through. You may not be worth the pain, but if...

I’m Allen Walker!”My life….is over…I’m going to die….

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying...

Sometimes you just wait for the night to be over and endure.

So instead of ignoring the pain, I called out to it, reaching for more. Pain is part of who I am. It’s the defining characteristic of a Shifter’s transformation. Pain is what I suffer from...

Life is sad and there is nothing we can do about it. All we can is to be vigilant about what we should not do. The worst thing we can do is to not feel...

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as...

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me.”She said I sang before I spoke. She said when I was just a baby she had the habit of humming when...

You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice–to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway –...

Pain is temporary, love is forever, don’t make it the other way around.

To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

If you never love you never hurtIf you never hurt you’ve never lived.Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it. 

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success,...

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself…all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

Life is unbearable pain.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

It’s good to cry a bit, ’cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there’s no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be...

Rainbows introduce us to reflectionsof different beautiful possibilitiesso we never forget that pain and griefare not the final options in life.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the...