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Pain Quotes



"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties, it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."


"The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we'd left unsaid driving us apart."


"Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain."


"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."


"As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water."


"Pain is a horribly wonderful gift."


"Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die."


"I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?"


"The 2ams have held my hopes all these years as I calm my nerves down for there would only be three more hours for the world to wake up to my screams and wails of excruciating pain.Probably the drug store would open if I wait for three more hours then.8am and the doc would prescribe me a few medicines over whatsapp.I would make three cups of tea by then. I would quiet my mouth as it would bite on my arm.By twelve I would finally be relieved as the meds would work.But it's only midnight now... wish you another goodnight's sleep."


"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."


"Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy."



"Something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think."


"It's been happening since I was in kindergarten. Not them all the time, but other kids, you know. Every day. It never stops, and it never goes away, thanks to the Internet--it just keeps happening every minute, every day. And I just want it to stop. I think about how to do it, you know. How to kill them. All kinds of elaborate things, like trapping them in pits and burying them alive, or covering them with concrete."



"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"


"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."


"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."



"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."


"It's strange how people give up on you within weeks of promising that they will always be there..and it's just sad that promises are destined to breakand when you had finally believed in that one promisesomeday you give up on yourself too...and it's not about love, it was never..it is, at times, about barren hopes and a bleak tomorrow."


"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."


"Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure."


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


"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."


"We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain."


"Pain is the University of Life."


"Oh that looked painful," called another Puck, a little farther down. "We really need to talk about your anger-management problems."


"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."


"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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