The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma...

Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy.

Joy came always after pain.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...

As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination. Through this healing process, I discovered perseverance and resilience. I could not go...

At least it was instant. At least there wasn’t any pain.”I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn’t get it.There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn’t go...

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

If you really loved me as you said you did maybe then you wouldnt of walked away. You have hurt me and left me hurt alone that is another thing i have decided i am...

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it.

Our way of thinking causes us more pain than all our misfortunes.

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn’t fit inside your body.

Someday my pain will mark you

His pain hurt me in a way I’d never felt before. It was worse than my own pain. My strength wavered. I felt completely powerless.

If you can’t feel anything, it doesn’t mean it’s not hurting.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel...

no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear

Guy’s don’t usually cry, but when they do, nobody can realize that what they have been going through.

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia – em (into) and pathos (feeling) – a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs,...

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the...

When you get down to it, at it’s root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: ‘Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed...

And you left your mark on me…With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.

Pain is something that’s common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren’t engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

I remembered you with my soul clenched

I don’t know why I feel so wounded with Kartik’s obvious infatuation with Pippa. There’s no romance between us. There’s nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It’s not Kartik’s...

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces

Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling...

Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means...

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom

I’ll admit it I’m on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming…Dead silence.Literally dead.

Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person’s pain. That’s it.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at...

Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

There is quite a lot of research around which suggests that although it is an effective form of pain relief, an epidural means many women will spend longer pushing the baby out of the birth...

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.”Wow. Where have you two been all my life?”Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.”Walking hand in...

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Be happy about your pain because it makes you who you are. After the pain is over the outcome is becoming a stronger person than before

We don’t look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty...

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer’s disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don’t automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool...

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

And my worst pains are words I cannot say

When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.