Pain Quotes

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

~ Philip Caputo

Some say the ocean roars,I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

~ Craig Froman

We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!

~ Donald Pillai

This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.

~ David W. Earle

Twirling round ‘n round -faster and faster …she dreams this circular motionwill take her home, high in the heavens where hurt is onlyan earthly world.

~ David W. Earle

There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.

~ Paulo Coelho

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

~ Victor Villaseñor

Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.

~ Tony Harrison

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

~ Cassandra Clare

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

~ Debra Moffitt

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they cease being the child so fondly victimized in their hearts and start being the benighted perpetrators of unfathomable pain.

~ Joshua Ferris

Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren't alive. Thankful that I'm alive!

~ Assegid Habtewold

...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

~ George Orwell

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

~ Lemony Snicket

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making, the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibility to be wounded. This fragility is part of our nature and cannot be escaped. The best the brain can do is to shut down conscious awareness of it when pain becomes so vast or unbearable that it threatens our ability to function. The automatic repression of painful emotion is a helpful child's prime defence mechanism and can enable the child to endure trauma otherwise be catastrophic. The unfortunate consequence is a wholesale dulling of emotional awareness.

~ Gabor Maté

There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.

~ Matthew S. Williams

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

~ Craig Thompson

Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All communications between the two seemed to have been cut, but within the keep that was his mind he still had power. The part of his consciousness that was telling him the pain did not hurt, and that all things were like other things, was like...like...he found it hard to think of a comparison. A magic mirror, maybe.

~ Iain M. Banks

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

~ L.j. Smith

It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

~ Shannon Hale

You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry.“I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.“Who cares about everyone? What about me?

~ Veronica Roth

I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.

~ Ally Condie

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human

~ Mkf - Screwed Life

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

~ Sarah Todd Hammer

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

~ Amy Harmon

Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I’ve always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I’m attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible.

~ Sarah Noffke

I wish to get you out of my veins, but you are my third skin; I can't rub you off.

~ Sheeba Shamsudeen

All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.

~ James Franco

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

~ John Steinbeck

I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

~ Emma Rose Kraus

Some seeksolace inwhiskey,I drown mysorrowsin ink.

~ Noor Shirazie

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

~ Vernor Vinge

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

~ Leslie Jamison

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

~ Emma Donoghue

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

~ Lauren Oliver

There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.

~ Jennifer St. Giles

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

~ Francesca Marciano

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

~ M.f. Moonzajer