Pain Quotes

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

~ Brandi L. Bates

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

~ Neal Shusterman

Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.

~ Auliq Ice

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

~ John Williams

Do not Forget PAIN, You Endure in it's presence!!

~ Abhijeet Sawant

The thing is that when you find true love it lives on, No matter if you two seperate but the love stays alive, broken, gasping for breath, love and affection, but in agony, waiting for everything to end.

~ Alamvusha

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

~ Tamora Pierce

The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.

~ Faraaz Kazi

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Yor great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll properly, couldn’t hop properly, couldn’t romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roasted cabbage—she loathed cabbage, with its leaves and growing in rows. And labor! Merill passed out during childbirth. She’d endured burns, lacerations, rips, serrated teeth, nails, hooks and a trove of unmentionable harm-inflictors. Labor trounced them all and wriggled gleefully in the spray of blood and gore. “Being pregnable is no good. No good at all. Like growing a bitter melon in your belly.

~ Darrell Drake

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

~ Robert Hellenga

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.

~ J. Loren Norris

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

~ Daisy Whitney

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

~ Prashant Chopra

Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure! Always your goal is pleasure. Pain, yes of course! Yet pain must only be used as a means to add to your sub's sensation of pleasure. To do otherwise is un péché noir - a black sin. Such will tarnish the soul. André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You don’t say, “I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.’ (I’m not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)

~ Pamela Druckerman

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.

~ Steve Maraboli

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

~ Sameh Elsayed

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

~ Osho

I hate that question, “Are you okay?” It’s like asking someone if they think you look fat. You’re almost guaranteed to get a lie.

~ Hilary T. Smith

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the difference between touching snow and putting your hand in a vat of liquid nitrogen.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.

~ Abbi Glines

We do not leave those whom we truly love. We only break the hearts of those whom we can tolerate their hurts and can move away from their pain From The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions

~ Maha Khlaid

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

~ Marcia Cameron

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

~ Seneca

While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us.

~ Erin Merryn

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.

~ Neil Gaiman

Oh, poor baby,” she said, mimicking his drawl.“Whew. You’re back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me.”She laughed. “They locked her back up in the loony bin.”“Good, because there’s only one Susie for me—the one who calls me on my crap and doesn’t let me get away with jack shit. That’s the Susie I need. That’s the Susie I’ve missed coming home to over the last year.” He kissed her. “And that’s the Susie who’s going to leave a gaping hole in my heart and my life if she doesn’t give me another chance.

~ Marie Force

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

~ Mike Carey

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

~ Lauren Dane

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

~ Neal Shusterman

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--And?And it makes you vulnerable.

~ Jim Butcher

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boyor girl.

~ Zachary Schomburg

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

~ Lou Diamond Phillips