Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

People don’t know. We don’t know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who’ve left us is because...

…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Fermina Daza había rechazado a Florentino Ariza en un destello de madurez que pagó de inmediato con una crisis de lástima, pero nunca dudó de que su decisión había sido certera.

Tiesą, kaip tu ir sakei, dažniausiai lydi stiprus skausmas. O beveik niekas netrokšta skausmingos tiesos. Žmonėms reikia gražios ir jaukios pasakos, kuri leistų jiems bent truputį giliau pajusti savo gyvenimo prasmę. Būtent todėl atsiranda religijos.

Pain laughed giddily at the thought, for love brought its own brand of torment. Lots and lots of torment. In the heart, the soul. Both causing a physical ache too intense to be relieved.

That’s why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It’s not just an emotion pain, it’s a physical pain too.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her....

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life...

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

…when the pain subsides the grief remains.

Pain is not the problem. Pain is just the byproduct of the problem.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another’s pain as one’s own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in...

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it...

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

Living in somebody else’s pain for an actor man, it’s actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That’s what I like.

…This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he’d unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; he’d said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the...

They have a choice to hurt us but we have a choice to be free from pain…

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn’t speak that language. They didn’t learn it as...

And even if Amina didn’t yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for...

I started feeling pain and eventually it got to the point where I couldn’t even walk on it. I played three games on it because I thought it would just go away, but it didn’t.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways due process for living in the world.

I don’t disagree that if you’re ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you’re critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state...

I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

¡Aprenderás a masticar los cataclismos, pequeño, y te los tragarás!

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)

Don’t you see the pain in my eyes? Why did you lie to me? -I caught feelings for him but we never had sex.-That doesn’t take away the pain.-You fulfil all my needs and desires....

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

I once had a complete life – in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion – Shavasti

Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to...

Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.

Harm is a bruise on the inside. If you’re a masochist, pain feels like love to you. Not being hurt is what hurts.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

If he’s alone then somewhere on earth I’m alone too.. We are far but doing the same thing.. Missing the same love and crying for the same reason.. That’s what matters now.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness....

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the...

Love’s just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don’t have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and...