"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Pain, Memory, Past, Identity

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"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Pain, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Pain, Hurt, Perception, Heart, Judgment

"When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Pain, Truth, Power, Life

"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."

Stephen King, American Author

Pain, Regret, Power, Today

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Pain, Poison

"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Pain, Parting

"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Pain, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Pain, Truth, Regret, Happiness, Wisdom

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"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions."

Identity

"Because I want to be remembered."

Legacy

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

Grief

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

Family

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

Belief

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."

Courage

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

"People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life."

"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."

"He was my best friend and I needed him."

"Because I want to be remembered."

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."