Pain Quotes

People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering self seems to stick to the Peak-End rule even when the ending is an anomaly. Just a few minutes without pain at the end of their medical procedure dramatically reduced patients’ overall pain ratings even after they’d experienced more than half an hour of high level of pain. “That wasn’t so terrible,” they’d reported afterward. A bad ending skewed the pain scores upward just as dramatically.

~ Atul Gawande

Do I need a safe word? You either tust me or you don't, Emily.

~ Laurelin Paige

Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, “Touch her, I’ll break your neck.

~ Laurelin Paige

Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, Touch her, I’ll break your neck.

~ Laurelin Paige

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

~ Salman Rushdie

Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.

~ Anonymous

Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.

~ James S.a. Corey

I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.

~ Catherine Doyle

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.

~ Kemi Sogunle

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

~ Dan Brown

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.

~ A.m. Homes

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

~ Ondjaki

I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't realize is that perpetrating shame is equally as painful, and no one does that with the precision of a partner or a parent. These are the people who know us the best and who bear witness to our vulnerabilities and fears. Thankfully, we can apologize for shaming someone we love, but the truth is that those shaming comments leave marks. And shaming someone we love around vulnerability is the most serious of all security breaches. Even if we apologize, we've done serious damage because we've demonstrated our willingness to use sacred information as a weapon.

~ Brené Brown

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

~ Simon Van Booy

Let it go and learn from the process.

~ Nash

The only way through pain is love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

High heels? Painful pleasure.

~ Christian Dior

And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.

~ Patrick Ness

Love is about heartbreak, If you think it’s fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even more heartbreak.

~ Glenn Hefley

when you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The best part about turning to the dark side of you, it sets you free.

~ Neetesh Dixit

There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Love can conquer every hateful heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest healing is forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.

~ Debasish Mridha

YOU MIGHT LEAVE ME FOR MY BETTER OR WORST, BUT FOR ME, I WANNA LIVE WITH YOU FOR OUR BETTER AND WORST.

~ Azmara Veera

Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throbbing pain has slowly turned into numbing emptiness..

~ Laarni Venus Marie

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

~ Jenim Dibie

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

~ Amy Engel

Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.

~ Peter V. Brett

. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain and tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the seabather comes after the icy shok of the sea bath.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Let go of the pain. Dwell on positive thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy!

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be With me through Eternity, Such thy power, memory.Three grey women walk with me.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn’s feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

~ Paul S. Kemp

Do you know what hurts so much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when that happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of use dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine.

~ Alexis Hall