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

O, great wise man,’ she said, ‘I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one’s...

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my...

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.

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think ‘this must be heaven’. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain – which started a fraction of a second...

Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real”.

It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain” Albert Camus

The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Turn...

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who’ suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I’m talking about.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt; wanted my outside to...

Love isn’t about to show off or to go on dates. Its about being with a person who makes you feel special, who gives you a feeling that no one else does. The one who...

Holiness has to be earned, and it is earned in this world of pain and woe, not in the world of spirit. Define holiness by your faith and your deeds, not by your tricks, and...

Those who have endured the scars of life, sorrows of the Heart, the grief of loss, pain of body, mind or spirit, and have fathomed the unexplainable sufferings of life have the greatest capacity to...

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Nos volvemos importantes para alguien y luego dejamos de serlo, y dejar de serlo es tan doloroso que se nos ocurre que hubiera sido preferible no serlo nunca. Si vas a ponerle muebles a un...

When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.