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There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.
— Brian  Doyle, The Plover
You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn't mean they don't care. You don't judge people in pain, and you damn sure don't lash out at them when they've lost what Syn has!
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal
Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.
— Mindy Greenstein
until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes us stronger than all of our efforts to exorcise it may in the long run alleviate its burden. It may enable us to take up our destiny as creatures whose very vulnerability renders us capable of inspired and truly awe-inspiring love.
— Mari Ruti, The Summons of Love
May the Lord revive the crushed spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You ought to the read stories of how people have endured worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Imagine you are tied to a chair with your hands tightly bound behind you, preventing you from covering your ears. Before you is a giant chalkboard. A woman enters the room. Her fingernails are long, hard, and ready for attack. You follow her with your eyes as she saunters to the chalkboard and raises her hand to make a claw. She looks at you with a blank stare as she digs her fingernails into the chalkboard and drags downward. As the harsh sound hits your ears, you squeeze your eyes shut in an instinctive yet vain effort to shut out the noise, but the absence of sight only magnifies the vile sound. Your ears have become hypersensitive, and you feel an unpleasant chill shoot through your body down to the toes of your feet. Finally, the sound stops as she removes her nails from the board, and a wave of relief passes over you. But the reprieve is short-lived. Again, the nails dig into the board and screech all the way down. The process repeats itself several times, and each time she stops dragging, you think it has ended for good, but soon she starts all over again. You frantically call out to her and ask her why she is doing this. You wonder what you have done to earn this perpetual torture. But she only looks back at your with a blank, almost quizzical stare, and that is when you realize that she is unaware of the pain she is causing. You feel the hopelessness pass over you. You squirm to free yourself from the chair, but it's no use. This is your life now, listening to this terribly unpleasant sound with no way to stop it. Sometimes she leaves, but she always comes back to repeat the scene, oblivious to the torture she creates.
— Rachel Cinelli
It's Painful Experiences... That Makes You Wise!
— Ibrahim Khidair Ali
Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.
— Ace Antonio Hall
If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
No matter what happens, you can make it. Like a fist tightened as hard as possible, you can always apply more.
— Ace Antonio Hall
If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Pain in your past will become power in your future. So make suffering essential.
— Debasish Mridha
Endure pain to turn it into your power.
— Debasish Mridha
It is natural to be impacted more deeply by pain than by pleasure.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul
— Ace Antonio Hall
Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
May the broken hearted be healed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Ava turned to the side, staring out into the dark. In profile, her face was suddenly tired and sad, and Cole felt the urge to wrap himself around her. To protect her from whatever was dragging her down.
— Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down
Pain and love cannot be in the same space. You can never love anyone in pain. You cannot truly love yourself in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.
— Kemi Sogunle
Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.
— John Mark Green
If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
People have so much pain inside them that they’re not even aware of.
— Marina Abramović
Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile
—  you’ll not realize it’s fakeThen I’ll pretendyour pretensions don’t cause me pain.
Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.
— Sarah Anne Shockley, The Pain Companion: Practical Tools for Living With & Moving Beyond Chronic Pain
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.
— Melissa Cady, Paindemic: A Practical and Holistic Look at Chronic Pain, the Medical System, and the antiPAIN Lifestyle
Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.
— Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.
— John Mark Green
Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others.
— Debasish Mridha
With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the innocence bestowed upon us at birth. There are some in whom life builds the furnace small and controllable, a passionate heat to burn off the losses, the harsh words and petty disappointments, leaving us cleaner for it. There are others. There are those whose innocence is assaulted early and with such brutality, that it goes beyond all the boundaries of deities and angels to stray into the world of unfettered evil. They build their furnaces differently.
— Robert E. Dunn, The Red Highway
How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.
— Zoë Marriott, Shadows on the Moon
We need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord healed all our wounds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it.
— Radhika Mundra
If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ileni swallowed hard. "Yes," she said. "I am. But it's all going to be the same, for a very long time. The sorcerers will have all the power, and the assassins will eventually regather and start attacking again... and I haven't made any difference at all.""Well," Evin said, "I think you've made quite a bit of difference to the people whose lives you saved. Speaking as one of them."She stepped away from the edge, closer to him. "Do you regret it?" he asked evenly.His face was half-shadowed, but his eyes were bright and piercing. Not wide with pain and devoid of hope. She felt again his hand, limp and helpless in hers. Felt it tighten as Sorin plummeted past the gray rock. "No," she said. And for at least that moment, it was entirely true.
— Leah Cypess, Death Marked
I feel like when I give trust that isn't earned, I receive hurt that isn't deserved.
— Steve Maraboli
Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?
— Sinan Antoon
Love never betrays. People do.
— Rohit  Sharma
It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life.
— Rohit  Sharma
Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn’t want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically.
— Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero
I suffered in my spirit, so that my soul will be restored.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out
— Joyce Guo
.......Love is such a biological feeling, which kills, without killing you biologically.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.
— Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave
— Joyce Guo
How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.
— Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
Vesper felt herself turning red with humiliation. Then she looked at Allegra—really looked at her. Maybe she’d had such a problem with people not seeing her because she wasn’t seeing them. Did Allegra’s mask of rage hide pain and doubt that anyone would ever truly love her? She thought that it just might. Vesper didn’t quite feel compassion, but she no longer took Allegra’s behavior personally.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
Every struggle you overcome, will build the strength of your spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.
— Shannon L. Alder
Without faith and hope, how could we have survived life?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I hold on to faith and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The anchor of my life is the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Challenges make us grow in faith, in spirit and in strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Lord fight your battles for you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You suffer alone. And rejoice with many.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be patient and endure the times.Your glorious days shall come to pass.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Doctors says it is impossible to live without a heart, but is extremely unbelievable to see how many heartless humans are living in this strange world. Humans proved it once again that nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, even living without a heart.
— Angela ShahAnwar
I waited and waited I wonder if there's something wrong with me. I've been alone and abandoned. I wondered if I will I be love will I know happiness. I can stay in this darkness forever but then again I can walk towards a light of hope. There only obstacle is me.
— Joyce Guo
Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.
— Tyler Oakley, Binge
You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I wonder if it's meant to be punishment for something one can't forgive oneself for. Or an external expression, Lady Queen, of an internal pain? Or perhaps it's a way to realise that you actually do want to stay alive.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.
— Lolah Runda, Hikari Okami: Kitsune Series
If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in you head.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.
— Natsuo Kirino
Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
Let go of all your hurt and be healed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I said that " I love you ", and there's no responce from you.It's like i am eating a dark chocolate,too bitter
— Carizza Bright
I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.
— Patti Smith, Woolgathering
You ask me to write you a poem,I pen you an empty ocean,You run away.You ask me who I am,I paint you a breaking sky,You weep in the rain.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on.
— Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
Forget the pain and the one who caused it, but not the lesson you learnt.
— Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
The deeper the pain, the greater the fear, the wider the door opens to a new world. Step through.
— Joyce Wycoff, Sarana's Gift, It Changes Everything!
I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Forgive and be happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you
— Nomzamo Nhlumayo
it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort.
— Iain Banks
I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Happiness isn’t about pretending there’s no pain. It’s about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Forgive means for get the hurt and give love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.
— Amy Engel, The Revolution of Ivy
There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?
— C. JoyBell C.
That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.
— James A. Moore, City of Wonders
What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
— Heidi R. Kling, Paint My Body Red
But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.
— Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
Hope is sure and steadfast trust.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God is a great healer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.
— Valynne E. Maetani, Ink and Ashes
May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I shall overcome any obscuration.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.
— Benjamin Meadows
We love our dear ones a lot but God love them more and take them from us,Worst feeling is that we can't meet or talk with them ever and this feeling kill us from inside.
— Jaiendra Puri
We love our dear ones a lot but God love them more and them them from us,Worst feeling is that we can't meet or talk with them ever and this feeling kill us from inside.
— Jaiendra Puri
Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you won’t be able to handle the pain of regret later.
— Dhaval Gajera
Do not waste your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is my soul-spirit set free from any chains.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.
— Kemi Sogunle
Love opens us.Pain deepens us.Courage strengthens us.Joy enlightens us.Beauty renews us.
— Joyce Wycoff
Beyond the limit of pain, it is longer painful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.
— Anthony Liccione
Weeping Widows"There is a river that cuts ThroughThe heart of EveAnd flows throughParadise's back window.It streams into A bottomless wellThat rolls down to hellWith the tears of theWeeping widows.The women stand along the well,And cryWhile singing gray lullabiesAs orphaned childrenLight up candles to put on palm leavesTo push into the streamWith petals of jasmine And pieces of tangerine,Then sit back and wait for their fatherTo show up over the horizon Where his heart still beatsIn their dreams.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
— Criss Jami, Healology
When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.
— Nikita Dudani
God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.
— Shannon L. Alder
In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you loose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.
— Nikita Dudani
They wanted to help me with my pain.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The fullness of existence is the experience of joy and sorrow, good times and dark times, pain and healing..
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels:Its wings are almost free--its home, its harbour found,Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound,"Oh I dreadful is the check--intense the agony--When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
— Emily Brontë
Don’t lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this moment, when this pain is taking over my mind and my self. Pretty soon none of this will make any difference.
— Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco
You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.
— Anthony Liccione
We cry to release the soul of its pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never complain, proclaim positive-words.Then, you will possess the divine grace for a change situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.
— Shannon Huffman Polson, North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey
What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?
— Sontag, Susan
There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.
— Beth Rinyu, Easy Silence
Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope makes life worth living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Someone once told me that when you die every deed you ever committed, whether on behalf of good or bad is represented in the form of pebbles. Black ones for every deed done in the name of evil, white ones for every act of good. The pebbles are weighed upon a great scale, and if the white stones outweigh the black then your soul is granted peace.”He opens one bleary eye. “What’s the punishment for too many black acts?”“There is no worse punishment than standing on the threshold of heaven alone.
— Ellis Adler
The first thing I understand is pain.
— Ellis Adler
Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Father, be my comfort in this dark times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever.I have grieved like a professional mourner—in every waking moment, draining every ounce of my life force.I died—without leaving my body.But I came back, and now it’s your turn.I have learned to remember my past—without living in it.I am strong, electric, and alive, because I chose to dance, to laugh, to love, and tolive again.I have learned that you can’t re-create the life you once had—you have toreinvent a life for yourself.And that reinvention is a gift, not a curse.I believe your future self is a work of art and that science can help you create it. If you’re lost . . . if you’re gone . . . if you can barely absorb the words on thispage . . . I want you to hold this truth in your heart: when it’s your time to go, you won’t wish you had spent more time grieving; you’ll wish you had spent more time living.That’s why I’m here. And why you are, too. Let’s live like our lives depend on it.
— Christina Rasmussen, Second Firsts Live Laugh and Love Again
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.
— Sunday Adelaja
Challenges are part of life;We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope.But we strengthen our spirit, when we fearlessly with faith and hope, rise up to meet and conquer the challenges.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.
— Edgar Allan Poe
...her own restless coveting of his love and the slow but sure ebullience of her desire for him; then the Nawab's martydom and her spiritual homelessness and physical loneliness; there was so much, so many portraits and landscapes, like the bright pages of an album of words and pictures. They filled her heart overflowing with the tangy, coppery taste of blood that flows from failure, and pricked her soul with nostalgia, for what was and what could have been. She had never thought that happy memories could come accompanied with so much regret, so much pain, so much repining, and discontent. If you plucked a rose without due care, its thorn pricked you to protest the thoughtlessness and the inconsiderateness you had displayed in taking away its crowning glory. Here, it was nothing else but the rose which was the thorn: its each and every petal was saturated with the scents of the past but it stung like the scorpion plant. But was it possible not to touch those memories? For their scents traveled in and out of your being like breath, and their colours were inside every blink of your eye.
— Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, The Mirror of Beauty
Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does, but that is not true. What time does is to trick you into believing that you have healed, that the hurt of a great loss has lessened. But a single word, a note of a song, a fragrance, a knife point of dawn light across an empty room, any one of these things will take you back to that one moment you have never truly forgotten. These small things are the agents of memory. They are the sharp needle points piercing the living fabric of your life.Life, my children, isn't linear where the heart is concerned. It is filled with invisible threads that reach out from your past and into your future. These threads connect every second we have lived and breathed. As your own lives move forward and as the decades pass, the more of these threads are cast. Your task is to weave them into a tapestry, one that tells the story of the time we shared.
— Stephen Lee
Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,Come from fathers long gone by.Bring blue from a distance eye.Lords of water, earth, and fire,Lords of wind and snow and rain,Give to my heart's desire.Life as all life comes with pain,But blue will come to us again.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Sometimes, we can’t help but to shed tears!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
She started beating it against the walls and floor until it was nothing but pieces, nothing but a memory of a guitar. I had an idea, though not yet clear, that it wasn’t her arms that beat what once could sing, but her heavy heart, as she once said that even the Rock of Gibraltar had ten thousand holes.
— Jackie Haze, Borderless
God turned every adversity into boundless blessings
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you find the strength to courageously live through any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t panic, but pray!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.
— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home
The name of life is Pain right now,Growing pain, a familiar pain,pain the tares my soul apart,Pain that only those who have seen death face to face can understand,Pain that forces me to look up, or down, and then within, The name of life is pain right now,Pain that tares my heart and soul to pieces,Pain that kills, and burns, Growing pain; that 's the name life right now.
— Quetzal
You will survive in any situation with hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All experiences are preordained by the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
One day I'll be as strong as people think I am.
— Ashley Boyd
The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to endure eagerly every situation with hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let go of all the pain. Embrace the joy of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is a never-ending process of growth and learning. We can welcome this growth, or choose to reject it. But, the healthy thing to do is welcome it with open arms, no matter how painful or hurtful the lesson may be. Because, if it is in your life, you can be fairly certain that it is there for a reason.We often hear that some of the most significant life change comes about as a result of great pain and suffering. It is comforting to know that on the other side of darkness and despair exists hope, excitement and anticipation for the future and its possibilities.
— Valerie Rickel
May all of you who stay behind, wake up and see that life’s a lie,May all of you breathing today, come to join our tribe of peace!To all who seek the breath of life, wake up today and see the truth. To all of you who fear Azrael, why fear the one setting us free? May all of you who think I’m dead, come see my face in the parade.
— Quetzal
It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.~ Rudransh Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
— Joyce Rachelle
The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.
— Clive Barker, The Forbidden
Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners
—  others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.
The Batcave is a monument… to his pain. The cave is more than his war room. He might think of it that way, all the tools and resources he’s assembled for his work. But that’s not it at all. The Batcave is a monument to his pain. And this morning, the way he’s hurting, it was the last place he would come.
— Chris Dee, World's Finest: Red Cape, Big City
He considered that a moment, rolling the sweet over his tongue. "There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.
— Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning
Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on.
— Manprit Kaur
The difference is,Now I cant call you anymore…I cant hear your calming voice,I cant hear your wordsThat made me always feel better,Now I am just all aloneIn this dark and cold room
— JJM
Let go of all your hurts and be healed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.
— Marya Hornbacher, The Center of Winter
I caught a red bird once, I fell in love with her,Took the red bird home with me,I saw her eyes, at saw my peace,I love the red bird much, I cut her wings, I wanted the bird to stay, I made a cage for her,No wings, and trapped, the red bird cried, I saw her eyes in pain; it broke my heart to see,I was the one to blame, for the red bird’s pain, It grew back its wings, no longer in the cage,She looked at me once more, spread its wings and left,I loved that red bird still; I wish she was with meBut now I know for sure , her pain was caused by me.
— Quetzal
Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.
— Katherine McIntyre, Soul Solution
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
— Marcus Aurelius
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to us response to any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
…because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt.
— Seneca
She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
She had thought about that moment so often during the past few years it had dried out. It was stale, like old, odourless potpourri. But she still want back to it, because it was the only one.
— Cassandra Rose Clarke, The Mad Scientist's Daughter
All at once, she was confronted with the full understanding of it. And if she admitted it to herself, she could only be left with the grotesque truth. She didn’t want to let go of the pain. She didn’t want it to be lessened. She wanted to carry it. And whatever path she took from this point forward would serve to take it away.
— Dorothy Gravelle, Paradox Love
Smile is the arch of an arrowed heartTears are waters to make pain's life start
— Munia Khan
I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
— J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
The greater the injury, the greater the fun.
— Leinad Eibam, a celebration of poets, Summer 2015
You have divine grace to forgive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I feel so lonely every night and every day and I still push everyone away…
— JJM
I can’t get her out of my head
— JJM
But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many people were trapped in that place with her.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Embrace life with hope than despair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There are days where you feel like shit ,torn apart,empty ,like it's hell .Well don't worry ,it does get better this hell of yours is what makes you find your happy path in life again.Why ?because during this hell all your pieces come out together and your task is to put them together and find who you really are.
— Amira -Fadil
We were despised and trampled upon but the Lord lifted us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Pain makes people who they are.
— David Arnold, Mosquitoland
The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.
— Scott Dye
I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.
— Anthony Liccione
A small hole in his shirt revealed a gooey red blob right in the meaty part above his armpit, blood pouring from the wound. It hurt. It hurt bad. If he’d thought his headache downstairs had been tough, this was like three or four of those, all smashed into a coil of pain right there in his shoulder. And spreading through the rest of his body.Newt was at his side, looking down with worried eyes.“He shot me.” It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he’d ever said. The pain, like living metal staples running through his insides, pricking and scratching with their little sharp points. He felt his mind going dark for the second time that day.
— James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
The pain of the journey should challenge you to make change, the vision of what could be drives you forward.
— Tony Curl
My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.
— Gottfried Benn
Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
— James A. Autry
Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?
— Jay Woodman
Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I’d gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.
— Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain
I'd like to go back to five years old again. Just sometimes. To be turning over rocks and looking for pill bugs and holding earthworms, playing dolls, erecting forts, digging through dirt for marbles, burrowing in leaf piles, failing at igloo building, when my biggest concern was going to sleep with the lights off. I wish I was five again, before things got hard, before I was forced to grow up way too early and been stuck in this "adult" thing way too long. I wish I could sit in my Grandpa's lap and let him sing me crazy Irish songs and go over the names of the planets. "Gwampa, tell me about Outer Space." ... "Gwampa, sing the Swimming Song."I wish I could go back there, just for a little while, and pick raspberries by myself in the sun and find secret hideaways and not hurt, not worry, not carry the heavy things. If I could be five years old....just for a few minutes. Remember what it felt like to be free. That would be something.
— Jennifer DeLucy
Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret.
— Sunday Adelaja
Never take the goals and aspirations along with your corpse. Rather execute... they doth entertain and enthrall the world around you!
— AnilChandra
Let your pain lead you to creativity
— Sunday Adelaja
Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new.
— Sunday Adelaja
If it´s cold and cloudy outside,And you want to be a great fella,Make all your troubles go glideOpening a smile as your umbrella.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
...his tortured voice lost in the much grander cries of the world around him.
— Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
...pain that would have made even a god shiver in terror.
— Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?
— Alan LeMay
The pain that every struggle brings, is the beginning stage of your future strength.
The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death.
— Harley King
Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.
— Sunday Adelaja
Life demands discomfort and pain.
— Sunday Adelaja
The divine force within you is mightier than any mountain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Only the weak in spirit causes others pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life
— Sunday Adelaja
In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Adversity tests the limit of your strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All the drain leads to the ocean...So chill out and enjoy the motion!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes I’m jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then I’ll catch her with this hollow look in her eyes and think maybe she just disguises everything for my benefit.Maybe she’s broken on the inside too.
— Paula Stokes, Vicarious
It's strange how can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.
— Amy Harmon, Prom Night in Purgatory
The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.
— Rob Liano
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking—that the mind is one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide of action—that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise—that a concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality—that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind—that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one’s consciousness.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We are taught to fear anything that can bring us closer to death — to keep us from taking huge leaps that involve risk. The only thing you should fear in this lifetime is not taking risks while you are living. I do not mean to go jump off a bridge. I mean, to go all out to reach your dreams, to dare to do things you typically would not do out of fear. Pain has a threshold and so does death. Fear neither, and never fear what has no right to be feared.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There are just traces of me and not a shadow left…Without the traces of your iridescence to make my silhouette.
— Deepa Bajaj
We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.
— Andrea Cremer, The Inventor's Secret
We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.
— Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
In AP Bio, I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. But it also means that the parts of me that knew and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe this is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
Stretched and skewedTap of the 8-ball and the cueScratches fall throughThey are the scars of you
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes
— Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the exercise but she did not feel better. While she was crying she had wanted someone, anyone to come and hold her. She had crawled into her closet, hoisted herself up onto the shelf that had duvets and bedsheets and curled herself among those. Now she knew that no hug could erase her pain, no sort of embrace could bind up her heart. She needed a new heart it seemed, her old heart was beyond repair.
— Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Loneliness gave me things that no one did. It gave me pain, It gave me strength to gather myself and stand again. It gave me strength to wait for you.
— Srinivas Shenoy
In the storm, our only anchor is hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule