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Pain Quotes


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



"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"


"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."


"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."


"I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything."


"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."


"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."



"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."


"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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