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... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.
— Olivia Arran, Heartsridge Shifters: Austin
Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.
— Akansh Malik
The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't all a misunderstanding-- this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain... If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could... get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
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.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.
— Catherine Coulter
I love my Pain,Because this is the only gift which i received by My most loving person.and its so costly for me
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I was forty-six in The Graduate, on the stage, which is more up close and personal than film. After my middle-age nude scene, though, I unexpectedly got letters from women saying, "I have not undressed in front of my husband in ten years and I'm going to tonight." Or, "I have not looked in the mirror at my body and you gave me permission."These affirmations from other women were especially touching to me because when I began The Graduate I'd just come through a period when I felt a great loss of confidence, when my rheumatoid arthritis hit me hard and I literally couldn't walk or do any of the things that I was so used to doing. It used to be that if I said to my body, "Leap across the room now," it would leap instantly. I don't know how I did it, but I did it. I hadn't realized how much my confidence was based on my physicality. On my ability to make my body do whatever I wanted it to do.I was so consumed, not just by thinking about what I could and couldn't do, but also by handling the pain, the continual, chronic pain. I didn't realize how pain colored my whole world and how depressive it was. Before I was finally able to control my RA with proper medications, I truly had thought that my attractiveness and my ability to be attractive to men was gone, was lost. So for me to come back and do The Graduate was an affirmation to myself. I had my body back. I was back.
— Kathleen Turner, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles
There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers
The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection
— Osamu Dazai
The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without pain and grief and sorrow and turmoil? If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth of the person, then we must learn not to protect people from them automatically as if they were always bad. Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of overprotection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.
— Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master
It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
When you're hurting, you hurt yourself.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood
Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness
— Munia Khan
A common misconception is that some people are only in pain because they are weak, anxious, depressed, or do not deal well with stress. This is not correct.Every experience you have — touch, warmth, itch, pain — is created by the brain and thus is all in your head, but it does not mean they are not real.Things like fear, anxiety, or depression can increase pain levels and can increase the chance of persistent pain. But often, these feelings only develop after a person already has chronic pain.
— Tasha Stanton
After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
— Unknown
Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as you say you are. They don’t believe that your pain is a legitimate enough reason to rest or nap or cry or take narcotic medications or not go to work or to go to the doctor. They might think that you are making too big of a deal out of it. They doubt the legitimacy of the pain itself.This kind of stigma is the source of the dreaded accusation that chronic pain is “all in your head.” It’s as if to say that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.
— Murray J. McAlister
If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.
— Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can begin in the body and affect the mind, both of which are served by the same bloodstream. Attempts to treat most mental diseases as though they were completely free of physical causes and attempts to treat most bodily diseases as though the mind were in no way involved must be considered archaic in the light of new evidence about the way the human body functions.
— Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
We’re both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each other. Maybe it’ll be the same for Kayla and me. It’ll be a long a run, but we might as well try.
— Simi Sunny, The White Sirens
Sunglasses are best invention of this worldThey hide eyes,which speak more then words
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and practically every joint in my body felt as though I had been run over by a truck. I knew that pain could be affected by attitudes. Most people become panicky about almost any pain. On all sides they have been so bombarded with advertisements about pain that they take this or that analgesic at the slightest sign of an ache. We are largely illiterate about pain and so are seldom able to deal with it rationally. Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the body that something is wrong.
— Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.
— Gina Barreca
There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we’re called to do hurts.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much
—  and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.
Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.
— Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
What is pain to a man? A privilege!
— James Clavell, Shōgun
He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on you and says goodbye goodbye forever without any reason for doing it. Without any reason at all.
— Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Love is a commitment not a gameif want play to game go ahead play but Don't give it name LOVE.it is your right to live your life and play any game as you want, but its not your right and its not right to destroy anyone's life
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
I can't believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It's like I've been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.
— Lang Leav, Sad Girls
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
Sometimes when you go through things, you bottle them up inside and try to act like everything is fine. Because you want to forget they ever happened. But you have to trust me when I say that doesn't work. In order for you to move on, you have to let them out.
— Gwen Cole, Cold Summer
There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become the cross of my pain? No, no, I can't conceive I won't receive your precious lips again. My eyes are tired of weeping, my heart of beating. If perhaps some crystal moment before dawn or twilight you remember me, bring only a bouquet of tears to lay upon my thirsty grave.
— Cisneros Sandra
Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.
— Stephen King, Song of Susannah
my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.
— Charles Bukowski
A little pain now and then is normal;The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay.Life goes on, but not forever,So why should we?
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing person
— One of the very best.You were here for part of my story
If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.
— Camilla Gibb, Mouthing the Words
We all know pain,’ Nate said. ‘It becomes a part of us… But it doesn't define us.
— Shona Moyce, Immisceo Taken
Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Life is a Game of Chess Between Me and God
—  Let the Best Player Win
Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.
— Choi, Hong Hi
I have a love/pain relationship with her. Love that caused more pain and pain that changed me.
— Sara Naveed, Our Story Ends Here
The dark, cold grasp you took on me, has tangled me completely
— Victoria Manning, Broken Chains: Broken Chains
Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.
— Sanhita Baruah
You couldn't save your mom because you weren't strong enough to do so. As for me, I couldn't stand and face the titan because I simply didn't have the courage! Forgive me... Forgive me.
— Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.
— Anurag Shourie, An Ode Towards Hope –
I don't need people, love or sex. Neither money, clothes or cars. The hate I gained was most needed. Don't understand me in the wrong way. It's been a while and the loathing turns into indifference, which now solves my problems.
— Mario Fingarov
Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
Patience is all we have in a land where time is obsolete. I press on, armored stranger. I am not deceiving you. The willows have always grown silent in my wake. I see and feel your ailing mind and it worries me. The night that follows you grows stronger. You still have time to change.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.
— Sylvain Neuvel, Waking Gods
A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more you bleed. And eventually, you will start falling in love with it. But the saddest part is, sometimes there comes a moment when you start to feel that all those wounds on your soul are not enough. And you start cutting yourself deeper, forgetting when to stop.
— Akshay Vasu
A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived.
— Nishikant
Pain is there when you are born,Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it,laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.
— Akash Lakhotia
He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain.
— Alice Hoffman, The River King
And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.
— Sophocles, Antigone
Look for the why behind your feelings of hurt and pain because they signal where we should make some changes.
— Nanette Mathews
I gritted my teeth and suffered my agony in silence. I did it for a sense of control, even though I knew that screaming was a release that would help ease a little of my pain.
— Cristina Rayne, Claimed by the Elven King: Part One
My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
Some wounds are so deep, that if you were to reach in their depth, you wouldn't find a way back.
— Zoyan
Tell me, what kind of functions does pain have when one is convicted to 100 whippings in Saudie Arabia? You claim pain has a function, I claim that's scientific rubbish. The only thing pain really does is cause an instant reaction that is not rational and usually quite erratic. The famous example of the hand in boiling water, for example. You say it proves pain has a function. But exactly because of the spasmic reaction lots and lots of people will drop the bowl with boiling water over their entire bodies causing serious burns. So what was the 'function' of this pain? Pain and fear cause confusion and trauma. If pain actually did have a rational function, chronic pain would not exist.
— Martijn Benders
The best part of my life is ,My death will not cause pain for anyone.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
My pain is there at his place but my lips start smile when i feel how she is happy and enjoying life with her choice.what you need more than happiness of your loves one.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
The most difficult thing is letting go of something you believed you were born to do, but there is always other options.
— Julian Quintero
If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?
— Munia Khan
Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.
— Mattie Stepanek
Take the pain and grow beauty...You know I've always loved volcanoes. I love how they spew searing, deadly lava that goes on to nurture the most beautiful landscapes on earth. It's from searing pain that the deepest beauty can sprout
— Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List
In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.
— Michael A. Stackpole, I, Jedi
All that pain of craving somewhere deep inside which lies in wait for one glimpse.
— Saqlain bin mushtaq
Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.
— Tim Morrison, QueerBashing
Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
— Mischa Temaul
Everything I've ever known is death and pain
—  being drenched in life feels good.
The ruthless, in the end, are the ones that will succeed.Those not held down by moral, by law, by emotion will triumph.Ruthlessness is the father of victory.Ruthlessness brings victory, but it also brings pain. The loss on one’s own hands and at the hands of others will burden one forever. But pain, too, is an advantage. Pain is a driving force. Pain can incinerate worlds.Pain creates drive, but it will take its toll.The victory that it brings lasts for a while, but the loss lasts forever.Loss without victory brings bitterness.Bitterness has advantages as well.Bitterness always remembers.Bitterness is the father of vengeance.But while it can lead to vengeance, it can also lead to self-destruction.Ruthlessness, pain, and bitterness are dangerous.If you are not careful, they will betray you. If you are not careful, they can very well destroy you.But to the shrewd, even this can be made an opportunity.Even ruin has its benefits.When ruination is at hand, there is nowhere to go but higher.Ruination is a chance for rebirth.Rebirth is a chance to correct old mistakes.Rebirth is a chance to destroy your enemy forever.
— General Grievous
You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.
— Malak El Halabi
Love does not always end well.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
How much did she remember? I wondered, afire with humiliation yet unable to tear my eyes from her. It wasn’t the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death. There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on end, I would happily have thrown myself in front of a car to make it stop.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
He was exhausted ,tired to his core ,The 'weight' of the world was crushing his soul!He carried so much ,Within him , for so so long ."Beast of burden" - that's what he was!His rugged face filled with battle scars That only 'he' could feelThe "smile" he wore was a 'helmet' ...Waiting for his breath to escape for good Praying for his final relief.
— BinYamin Gulzar
Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.
— William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out."Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams. "Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letting all the pain go out of your body.
— Victor Villaseñor, Rain of Gold
If a human artist or employer made children suffer so that something immensely impressive or valuable could come to pass, wewould put him in prison. Why then should we excuse God for causing such undeserved pain, no matter how wonderful the ultimateresult may be?
— Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can’t feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When weunderstand that, our question will change from, “Why do we have to feel pain?” to “What do we do with our pain so that it becomesmeaningful and not just pointless empty suffering? How can we turn all the painful experiences of our lives into birth pangs or intogrowing pains?” We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have alot to say about what the suffering does to us, and what sort of people we become because of it. Pain makes some people bitter andenvious. It makes others sensitive and compassionate. It is the result, not the cause, of pain that makes some experiences of painmeaningful and others empty and destructive.
— Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
If you pick a fight with one man or woman who is in pain you are already out numbered.
— Chuck Bridges
I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."pg 364
— Veronics Roth
I may be in pain, but I am not weak.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
— Nicole  Lyons
Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I can’t be here for that. It’ll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and I’m outside in the main room of the ICU when I hear his weakened voice say, “Winter?”I hurry back to the waiting area. Hopefully he’ll think he dreamed me. Maybe he did. Sometimes I feel like I’m not even real anymore
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.
— Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again
I knew that the pain I felt now was here to stay. In many forms. Through many nights.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
I trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingSaid I was your moon and you were the starsYou're so deceivingI trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingThe wound is deep Blood is seeping
— Nomzamo Nhlumayo
It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.
— Robert Lacey, Grace
I have finally come to realize that it’s being forced to be honest with myself that’s made my pain painful all along.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: that the ties between Nelson and his wife are bitterly close, and never to be broken in their lives. They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.Nelson is about to leave his wife; he will never leave her. She will wail at being rejected and abandoned; she does not know she will never be rejected.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Over many a race the sun's bright net was spreadAnd loosed their pearls nor left them even a thread.This dire world delights us, though all sup—All whom she mothers—from one mortal cup.Choose from two ills: which rather in the mainSuits you? —to perish or to live in pain?
— Abul 'Ala' Al-Ma'arri
The first time my heart broke, I thought back tothe day in my childhood when a piece of glass wentthrough my finger after an ill-fated cartwheel.I was eleven years old.My mother and I were in our bathroom cleaningup the wound. She dribbled peroxide onto the cut.It fizzed and burned; I winced at the pain.It needs to burn so you know it’s healing,she explained.That small exchange during my adolescence helpedme learn to appreciate the pain pulsating from mybroken heart. In spite of the severity of my wound,I knew the healing process had already begun.
— Alicia Cook, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars
— Munia Khan
Whatever you do, don’t feel sorry for me. I know it’s the best you can do. Life hasn’t hit you in your perfect little bubble yet. Please don’t try to understand. Nobody can. No one knows what it’s like to be me, except others like me. You’re making me pissed. You’re making me feel bad. Stop reminding me that I have no life. I don’t care about your prom. Yes, I know I haven’t talked to you in a while. NO, I’m not ignoring you, but it’s not exactly like you’ve been calling me either. I just haven’t been feeling well lately. I’m tired and my body is aching all over. It’s hurting all the time. I can barely move when it rains, and some days I just don’t want to do anything. SHUT UP.
— Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir
The mind, at length bereftOf thinking and its pain,Will soon disperse again,And nothing will remain:No, not a thing be left.Only the ardent eye,Only the listening earCan say, "The thrush was here!"Can say, "His song was clear!"Can live, before it die.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest
God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.
— Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times
They prickled her like thorns and leaves growing under her skin, and she felt the ache of a glass vine caging her forearm. They would crack, and the jagged pieces would cut into her wrists. Her blood would tint the glass. It would splinter and cut deeper into her.
— Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
Why so many wounded people look for forgiveness from who has injured them?
— Luigina Sgarro
Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Often we don't see, the pain someone feels.A broken heart is like having broken ribs.No one can see but hurts everytime you breathe.
— Hafikah WC
Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why don't You help us? Do You have any idea how much we hurt? How much we suffer?I know all things, daughter.Well, okay, then know this. We human beings are unhappy all the time. We hate ourselves and we hate each other and sometimes we wish You of Whoever had never created us or this shit-ass world or any other shit-ass world. Do You realize that? So next time You might think about not doing such a half-assed job.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.
— Amber   Smith, The Way I Used to Be
She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.
— Akshay Vasu
I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.
— Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne
But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.
— Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.
— Stefan Molyneux
Every day I thank God for giving me a little kind heart which bears this life
— Ahlam Salhab
Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these notes the senseless writhings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? Who still thinks there is some device (if only he could find it) which will make pain not to be pain. It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
I believe that is what happened during this time in my life. God had other things for me, and he knew me so much better than I knew myself, so he moved me along to a new place. It certainly didn't lessen the pain at the time, but if I've learned anything along the way, it's that sometimes the best lessons are the ones that hurt the most.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: no troubles are for one moment to be compared with those that come of the wrongness, even if it be not wickedness, that is our own. Some clouds rise from stagnant bogs and fens; others from the wide, clean, large ocean. But either kind, thank God, will serve the angels to come down by. In the old stories of celestial visitants the clouds do much; and it is oftenest of all down the misty slope of griefs and pains and fears, that the most powerful joy slides into the hearts of men and women and children.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
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....
— Sanhita Baruah
When you say a man cry in front of another, then you should know that whatever has caused him that much sadness must be a tough one.
— A. Kevin
Let Him pull you from the drowning waters of our world. He will wipe the tears from your pain; soothe the disappointments of tomorrow and comfort you from this cold, dark life. He will bring you everlasting Joy.
— Allene van Oirschot, Daddy's Little Girl
He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Don't think about your past, enjoy your present. And do your best. Reduce immosion, otherwise it will give you painful moments.
— Sudeb Gharami
And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud became more painful that the risk it took to blossom. [likely not Anaïs Nin; look under "Disputed quotes" on the Wikiquote page for her]
— Lassie Benton (pseudonym of Elizabeth Appell)
If you pray, you can endure any pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and she saw him standing behind her. With that smile he always had. She touched his reflection and turned around to hug him just to see no one there. She turned back around and looked at the mirror, there he was still standing with that smile. She fell on her knees and said in a feeble voice "come back".
— Akshay Vasu
Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.
— Akshay Vasu
I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
I slept cause she cheated. She slept cause I cheated! WTF! We Need? Let's buy a loyal bed.
— Antor Mashud
He ran as fast as he could, but the memories were fast too. He stumbled upon them and fell to the ground. The memories got up and stared into his eyes menacingly, they laughed harder and kept their foot on his neck. He choked and fought to breathe. He tried and failed to scream. They choked him hard until he suffered and died miserably inside.
— Akshay Vasu
Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
...Religious observances, once so full of suffering and awe, have become accommodating and benign. Teachers go out of their way to avoid embarrassing, insulting, overworking, or otherwise vexing their students. Each year public language is further purged of impurities that might injure sensitive groups. Prime-time television series seem dedicated to the comforting message that things are really okay.Indeed, modern society's war on pain has been vastly more successful than its war on pain's causes.
— Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?
— Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Let go of the pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
Death may be peaceful but the circumstances leading to it are more often than not anything but. They slept that day with their eyes open, with death as the companion of their dreams. Maybe you would like to imagine that they were looking at each other, heads twisted at grotesque angles or at the fading sun. Their bodies were just empty vessels and their eyes were windows that showed only a vacant home. Maybe it was because they had passed on into a world where the sun never set or maybe even a world where nothing existed but an infinite pool of darkness. You can choose to believe anything you want up to the time Death comes for you. After that, well, we can only imagin
— Shitij Sharma, The Girl from Rostov
To bury something, it is often considered, either means the end of something or the passing on into the realm of the earth or the sky, only the dead could ever know. But it is not only the dead that we bury. We bury objects, memories, thoughts and emotions among other things. Contrary to popular belief burying something is not the end of it because even though it is suppressed beneath layers of earth or self control, the dead and buried don’t always remain that way and that is where the stories come from, the stories that haunt us for the rest of our no longer carefree lives.
— Shitij Sharma, The Girl from Rostov
The death of a loved one is one of the worst experiences that life has to offer and yet it’s unavoidable, the only alternative being never loving in the first place. Life is so feeble, its flame extinguished as easily as blowing out a candle. All it takes is a misplaced step or disease, life eventually takes its course and the destination is always death.
— Shitij Sharma, The Girl from Rostov
Are you in pain, pray?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren't the right one for him.
— Jay Crownover, Riveted
Are you in pain, pray!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.
— Sara  Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder
I am sitting here, staring at the dark sky and drunk with memories. laughing like a maniac while crying an ocean. Somewhere it feels like somebody is kissing my lips passionately. While they are continuously pushing a knife, deep into my chest.
— Akshay Vasu
Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You’re trying to look for rock bottom, to that part of yourself that could no longer feel pain. But there is no such thing as rock bottom. As long as there is left to destroy in you, you’d do it. We always feel the need to sink ourselves because we keep being intolerable, because if we’re suffering then maybe people would give us a break for all the shameful things we do. You think you could impose your own penance, but it never goes away, does it? That kind of deadening that’s worse than actual dying.
— V.J. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands
When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence.
— Akshay Vasu
I’ve reached the vanishing point without you.Here my heartache begins with your paintrying to find an unborn startin this fatal disappearanceFrom the poem ‘Me with the Vanishing Point
— Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue
Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.
— Vironika Tugaleva
He fell on his knees on that barren ground, Staring at the sky. And the sky opened up for him by raining. With the rain, every drop of his tear was washed down filling the cracks beneath. nobody got to see his pain and agony. And yet again he remained a mystery that was never solved.
— Akshay Vasu
For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
I think you’re magicians because you’re unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
The joy that comes from the action lasts forever while the pain is only temporary.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Prophecies aren't meant to be supernatural or some sort of other worldly power. It's a mathematical calculationss. The near and dear one's can always tell accurately what's going to happen. But the problem is, we never pay attention to their words. Cause they aren't Gypsy!
— Antor Mashud
This is the terrible thing girls like us have in common" she explained. "Parents, upbringings,lifestyles, that are painfully normal. Middle class."It was almost amoral, being raised this way, she told me fiercely. We'd never really understand pain. And wasn't that the human condition? By shielding us from the real world, pressing their palms over our eyes during all the bad parts. our parents -our parents-were keeping us separate from humanity. We were something else entirely
— Meg Haston, Paperweight
You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.
— Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.
— Abhishek Kothari, Love & Peace
Pain has been never been a gain... it has been the thing which stops people.
— Deyth Banger, Problem 1#2
We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of grey when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.
— Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice
We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other.
— Akshay Vasu
It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.
— Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten
And her heart burst like the stars do in the end, and She fell on her knees. But the whole world looked her in awe. She lit the whole universe with her fire for a moment. In the end, she was as beautiful as the stardust falling from the sky and her heart didn't ache anymore.
— Akshay Vasu
At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.
— Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go
I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.
— Ian McEwan, Nutshell
I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Welcome the hidden messages in pain.
— Deborah Sandella
How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation that does not make her a fool and him an animal, but every thought of him is a knife turning in the wound love made.
— Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
Think about it. There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love. You couldn't take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather have this pain now then never have known him. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get better.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They warned us about the monsters we would encounter, the odds that we would meet. And they laughed when we got the scars while fighting the dragons on our way. When we came back out of the tunnel, holding the sword that they always craved for tightly in our hand. Bleeding and the sun shining on our face. We became the tales they wanted to be. We became the reflections of what they always wanted to see themselves through. We became the warriors they had always imagined of.
— Akshay Vasu
Live BOLDLY! ......because no one ever told you healing is a life long process.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!
— Peter Shaffer, Equus
I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment.
— Kim Holden, So Much More
First love is like hearing your favorite music , regardless of how much you repeat it , every time you will enjoy all the pain.
— mahmoud hamdy
Still, pain hurts. And most of us find it difficult, to say the least, to find gratitude in our hearts for the worst things in life.
— Auliq-Ice
If you want to know someone look at what they do when they are in pain and notice what their not doing.
— Isabella Poretsis
And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain.
— Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits
You have to get hurt . That is how you learn . The strongest people out there , the ones who laugh the hardest , those are the people who have fought the toughest battles . But they've decided longback , they're not going to let anything down . They are showing the world who's the boss here
— Anonymous
Fake isn't the perfect choice one moment the person in front of you will just catch you... or you can't do that forever... and be a sick fuck to play with people's feeling.To be real, sometimes is the worst pain.
— Deyth Banger, Fakeness = Thoughts
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed