After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really – most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more,...

You don’t want me to stand against the council. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smacking people with it until everything’s just the way you like it. But guess what, Faythe?...

If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn...

Take your clothes off.” “What?” “You heard me.” Evelyn forced her mouth shut. She looked around the room, buying time. The faded brown curtains hung limply over the windows, not quite touching, and the afternoon...

I want to be hurt. I want to be in so much pain that I can’t think and I can’t remember why. That’s what I want. That’s all I want.

My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and...

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak....

We all have scars, Kere. Inside and out. Wounds that go so deep, they leave a permanent mark on us. But that doesn’t make them ugly or revolting. They were hard lessons learned and for...

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that...

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!

…the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

In today’s world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don’t want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will...

One tragedy here, one tragedy there, … We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.

In my mind, I built stairways. At the end of the stairways, I imagined rooms. These were high, airy places with big windows and a cool breeze moving through. I imagined one room opening brightly...

If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in...

Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

It’s unfair to prosecute anyone addicted to pain medication.

I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it’s because I love God too much that I can’t hate.

Do you remember? Love is love is love. Pain is pain is pain. Knowledge is knowledge. It doesn’t matter what shape or form it takes, what matters is how you use it, what you do...

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the...

He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture,...

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you...

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

Theres a process of self doubt when things go wrong. Whether or not its personal or a friend in trouble, looking at ones self isn’t always the answer neither is seeking god. Just acception and...

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man’s best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply...

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I’ll admit, because up to now I’d not done much more than be, and when I wasn’t just being, I’d caused some pain, too.

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not...

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

At some level, it is even tempting to think that since strict materialism is among the most incoherent of superstitions – one that has never really asked the question of the being of things in...

I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them…go around them…take evasive action.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.