Pain Quotes

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

~ Ann Brashares

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

~ Dave Eggers

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

~ Boris Pasternak

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

~ Jacqueline Carey

I fell for you and I fell hard. You bruised my knees and my heart to the point where I will do everything in my power never to fall for anyone again. It’s safer to stay on your feet. I would rather walk through life completely without love - empty, than crawl through what’s been pumping through my veins one more time.

~ Denice Envall

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a right to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

~ Marc Bekoff

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

~ Jerzy Kosiński

Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

~ George Eliot

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?

~ Emily Murdoch

The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.

~ Rick Riordan

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

~ Nathanael West

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would’ve discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.

~ Rick Riordan

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

~ Christopher Hitchens

Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

~ Julie Kagawa

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

~ H.g. Wells

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

~ J.k. Rowling

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

~ Sue Monk Kidd

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury, hunger of necessity is terrifying torture.

~ Mike Mullin

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free.

~ Isabel Lopez

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

~ Sharon Kay Penman

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

So if you love me, let me go.And run away before I know.My heart is just too dark to care.I can't destroy what isn't there.Deliver me into my fate -If I'm alone I cannot hateI don't deserve to have you...My smile was taken long agoIf I can change I hope I never know

~ Slipknot

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

~ Jane Hamilton

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

~ Manuel Rivas

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

~ Isaac Asimov

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

~ Boris Pasternak

1. You must let the pain visit.2. You must allow it teach you3. You must not allow it overstay.(Three routes to healing)

~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Heart’s blood and bitter pain belong to love,And tales of problems no one can remove;Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine -And if you lack the heart’s rich blood take mine.Love thrives on inextinguishable pain,Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.A mote of love exceeds all bounds; it givesThe vital essence to whatever lives.But where love thrives, there pain is always found;Angels alone escape this weary round -They love without that savage agonyWhich is reserved for vexed humanity.

~ فرید الدین عطار

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

~ Khaled Hosseini

So instead of ignoring the pain, I called out to it, reaching for more. Pain is part of who I am. It’s the defining characteristic of a Shifter’s transformation. Pain is what I suffer from my enemies. It is what I deal out to those who break our laws. It is what I protect my charges from. Pain is what I inherited from fate, that fickle bitch who gave me a mouth and fists, then put me in a world that wanted only my womb and my cradled arms.

~ Rachel Vincent

We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.

~ Bauvard

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s thebody’s physical response to imminent harm.It is the mind’s way of telling us to move ourhand off the stove or let go of the brokenglass.

~ Ally Carter

I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?

~ Amy Reed

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

~ Elizabeth Scott

A light which lives on what the flames devour,a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch,a crucifixion by a single wound,a sky and earth that darken by each hour,a sob of blood whose red ribbon adornsa lyre without a pulse, and oils the torch,a tide which stuns and strands me on the reef,a scorpion scrambling, stinging in my chest--this is the wreath of love, this bed of thornsis where I dream of you stealing my rest,haunting these sunken ribs cargoed with grief.I sought the peak of prudence, but I foundthe hemlock-brimming valley of your heart,and my own thirst for bitter truth an

~ Federico García Lorca

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading.Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.“Severus . . . please . . .”Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumble

~ J.k. Rowling