Pain Quotes

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

~ Jenim Dibie

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

~ Jill Telford

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 be present and have sympathy.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

~ Lev Grossman

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

~ Shannon L. Alder

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.

~ Anthony Liccione

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

~ Virginia Woolf

When a heart gets hurt, its pain comes over the words.”― Samar Sudha

~ Samar Sudha

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

~ Gillian Flynn

I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.

~ Jasmine Warga

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

~ Abby Norman

And with that, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.

~ Amber Silvia

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness Visible, William StyronIt is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.

~ William Styron

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

~ Lisa Bedrick

I have prayed many times that God would give me wisdom and I concur with Solomon here when he says that with much wisdom there is much grief. The more you know, the harder life is. The more pain and suffering you see, the more you come to realize that it is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men.

~ Lisa Bedrick

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

~ Aubrey Dark

It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.

~ Wendy Law-Yone

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its master. It moves to my tongue when it wants me to spew beautiful, damaging words, it moves to my hands when it wants me to feel all it can take away, and it moves to my eyes to blind me from truly seeing the destruction I’ve done.

~ Piper Payne

She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers.

~ Thinking Out Loud

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, the blues which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.

~ William Styron

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what's tangible and what's not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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.

~ Susanna Kaysen

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, don’t touch me! as he moved to place a gentle hand on my shoulder. There were times when we seemed locked into our chairs, discrete, the static between us more eloquent than words. But there was never a moment when I doubted Peter’s ability to heal me.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

~ Claire North

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

~ Christopher Pike

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.

~ William Styron

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.

~ James Clavell

Some are born richWhile others poor,Some are born freeWhile others captives,Some are born blessedWhile others deprived,Some are born strongWhile others weak,And some are born greatWhile others slaves.It is only in this lifeblessings are unequal.

~ Emmanuel Aghado

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

~ Veronica Roth

Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!

~ Martin R. Lemieux

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.And now my soul was crying.

~ Tracey Emin

There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.

~ Solange Nicole

After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.

~ Ani San

You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of the depression you are living in and your prayers to God seem empty because you are sooo very tired of telling him the same thing over and over again..... if we are really being real... there may even be moments after impact you forget how to pray... maybe you don't even want to.

~ Erica Stone

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

~ Emma Forrest

It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

~ Ryū Murakami

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

~ Emma Forrest

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

~ Charles Dickens