Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

We only dream of things we know and people that we’ve seen… War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.

Levi smiled at her. “Your heart is aching now, I can see that. I know what it feels like. The only thing I can say to try and make it better is to use that...

Hay cosas que solo deberían poder lograrse cuando se desean por primera vez. Seguir deseándolas después es una desgracia. Es sobre todo un espejismo.

I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn’t want to feel what I...

Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don’t want to look like a troll, do you?

If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are...

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her… I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to...

Some will call this self-indulgence(They are lucky not to know its truth)Some will know the simple fact of painThis is becoming my normality

Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile....

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her...

To my abusers: I forgive you.

Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

It’s not love that you hate, it’s the loved one who betrayed.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Love is a pain and to get rid of it you need more of it

Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are “Players”, pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas!

…the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

You see? You’re just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each...

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not...

PainWaves are the sea’s white daughters,And raindrops the children of rain,But why for my shimmering bodyHave I a mother like Pain?Night is the mother of stars,And wind the mother of foam—The world is brimming with...

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

One fire burns out another’s burning,One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again?...

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

We can heal our superficial wounds, but how do we kill the pain inside? How can we heal something which no one except us can feel? There is no doctor, no medicine, and no remedy...

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it’s a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they...

Siddhartha embarked on a mission that human civilization has been on since its inception – How to overcome pain and suffering in human life. Siddhartha was perhaps the first scientist on the planet who wanted...

It wasn’t so much that Lola Plum believed she’d learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful;...

My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing...

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Just a tiny little pain,Three days of heavy rain,Three days of sunlight,Everything will be alright,Just a tiny little pain.

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman’s hands, there will also be no affect...

Čudna je to bol.Umirati od žudnje za nečim što nikada nećeš doživjeti

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever….

t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that’s the problem with being alive. You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the...

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you’re not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.