I must believe that it is easier when it isn’t a struggle to take every breath, when it isn’t torture to live every day, when it doesn’t hurt to see the new sun rise. I...

When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is… because that is what it...

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first… it’s amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until...

It’s good. It’s not an issue. There is no pain.

Poetry and beautyare born out of pain.This is their glory,this is our gain.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

once upon a time I would’ve killed to feel numb, like I do now. I would have reveled in the abyss of emptiness that fills my heart. the fear of the unknown would’ve made me...

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

When you feel life is tough.. take a trip around a nearby hospital and all your worries will start looking smaller.

I feel like we have to deal with things, so we realize change! Change comes after pain and pain comes after truth. Truth is hurtful.

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

He’s pain-free so we’re fairly confident that he’ll certainly be right by the first round, but hopefully be able to get one or two practice matches in.

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

The world now follows a zoo culture where in the weaker ones are caged and the stronger ones watch playfully –

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.

I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

Caidi to Jacin: “Do you know why I love you?”Jacin: “No.”Caidi: “Because you love so big, even when you don’t want to. Because you can’t help it. And because you need it back, but you...

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed...

I’ve read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and Gravity’s Rainbow, and the Story of O. First you have to have pleasure—then pain.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way...

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I did not want to see, but HE was standing next to my bed every...

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life...

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still...

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they’re scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they’re going to lose something.

When I press my forehead to his back, the shape of his pain is alluring, almost visible. It forms him, tells him to protect himself, makes him everything he is. He needs to keep it.

If I feel that sharp pain on the court, it’s impossible to play. That’s what happened in Paris. I couldn’t do anything. But normally the pain I live with is just during the cool down,...

What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?

In life pain is a teacher you will never forget

In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they’d prefer.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles longCoiled, one thousand miles deepEyes like candy, it has eyes like candyHard and blue, but soft as kittens feetOut of sight or in the element of lightIt could...

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The goal isn’t to wallow in the pain or to avoid it, but rather,...

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

Trauma. It doesn’t eke itself out over time. It doesn’t split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life.Trauma is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction.A tornado of unimaginable...

William Hurt has a painful last name. Kevin Love has a name perfect for February 14th. But what about Johnny Longdong? Where does he fit?

You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn’t. It is just like the time as a kid when...

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart...

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

This is what I’m supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I’m supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was...

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain...