Love is a wonderful, terrible thing

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a...

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.

Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one’s illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions,Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if...

Yes, you are right! I am your leftover trash. I hope you know a bum got to eat too. I believe you were one when I met you.

Some people run from pain their whole lives, and what pain they do not digest they inflict upon others.

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

The fullness of life’s balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

Other people’s sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly emphasize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does this say about my life, my pains,...

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment....

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I’d be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn’t, when my back would give out and throw me down to...

At that instant, Eragon’s back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid...

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How...

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All...

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion...

Fletcher, I’ve been around for a long time. I’ve been in love too many times to count. I’d like to say it gets easier, but it doesn’t. The pain you’re feeling now is the pain...

I didn’t feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (…) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and...

Twirling round ‘n round -faster and faster …she dreams this circular motionwill take her home, high in the heavens where hurt is onlyan earthly world.

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without...

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

I also know I’m not going to stay away. I’m going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I’m good at pain. I’m good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once...

I have found a way to beat myselfI win by losing, something like thatI’m told that I’m stupidSo ok, I’ll be stupidIf I can’t register the painThen it’s not thereI’m not so stupid after allI’ll...

…I wondered why so much had been written about love’s pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love’s pain.

It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself....

Tôi biết Kim sẽ suy sụp sau khi tôi chết, nhưng tôi ngẫm về những điều cô nói, về chuyện không lo sợ,về chuyện vào tù còn dễ dàng hơn mất tôi, đó là lý...

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

I’ve been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we’ve found it.

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I...

natives” tend to tourists like indentured servants with plastic, lifeless smiles. It’s not such a charming picture, is it? The truth is ugly, but so is ignorance or denial of such atrocities and pain.

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people – upset...

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.

There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don’t want to.

A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.