There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered...

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn’t understand.

Hey, if you’d wanted to avoid ‘this,’ you shouldn’t have lured me last night. Now it’s too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of...

I guess I just have a high threshold for pain.

A life I didn’t choose chose me.

But they both agreed that it’s always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn’t go any further than that.

Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.

You heard him say it? ‘Pain’s the only evil I know about.’ You heard that?”The monk nodded solemnly.”And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?””Yes.””Dearest...

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature’s way

If I die, does that stop my pain, or just makes it worse?

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

His legs, now unsplinted but as crooked and ugly as something glimpsed through a rip in the canvas of a freak-show tent, hung down. The left, with the salt-dome where the knee had been, was...

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life’s joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth....

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. ‘Death...

True pain teaches us to grow. You aren’t finished yet. Dylan needs you.

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one’s fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the...

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn’t want to force anybody to want to.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It...

In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Fiquei ali, com o corpo moído e doído, as lágrimas correndo pelo meu rosto, às vezes chegando aos meus lábios, me fazendo sentir seu gosto salgado. Em minha cabeça, eu tinha apenas fantasias. Um monte...

Pain is only what you allow it to be

Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren’t alive. Thankful that I’m alive!

…they’re thinking about putting me on the cover of the USA Today, story of heartbreaking pain, picture of the loneliest man they claim, in the U.S.A. today.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain....

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

Se la morte è davvero un passo avanti per l’eternità, ti prego… Baciami all’infinito e io morirò per te ogni giorno.

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn’t want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I have a new name for pain. What’s that?The Obliterator. Because when you’re in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it’s strong enough, the...

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Wonderful art can spring from misery,I’m the last person to deny that.I’d go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably stemmed from the deep human sorrow or hellish frustration,the death of...

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected…

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Just because someone says it is so doesn’t mean it is.

Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I’d rather live with the first than the second.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man’s pride.