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When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
When you pretend you don’t feel hurt or angry or devastated, you’re not fooling God. Be honest! Don’t misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.
— Randy Alcorn, Ninety Days of God's Goodness: Daily Reflections That Shine Light on Personal Darkness
Exquisite pain. The kind you wanted to feel every day for the rest of your life. It was the pain of finally having something you wanted. Something you’d longed for. Longed for since you had memories. Something life taught you to believe you’d never have. Something, if you lived without it, it left a void in your soul you knew would never be filled. Something, without it, you knew you’d never be whole. It was something you needed. It was as necessary as breath. It was what was required to complete you".
— Kristen Ashley
I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?
— Terrence Alonzo Craft, The Seed Bridge: Collected Poems
Suffer you will, one way or another
— Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams
Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Always – but especially when suffering - surround yourself with those who inspire you to lose yourself more honestly, to love others more thoroughly, to live life more fully, and to trust God more wholly. Huddle with those who care for you and those who are exemplary in their encouragement, patience and understanding of others. Hang out with those who strive to put God and faith at their center. Pray for peers, friends and mentors who will not only encourage you to be your best independent, strong, and vulnerable self all at the same time – but also sincerely humble. Pray that their angel dust will transcend you when even the smallest flecks of their contagious warmth and permeating beauty fall upon you. Then ever pray that you may have the opportunity to likewise ease and nurture others in such authentic ways; thus honing such a charitable, other-oriented nature of your own, – a miraculous healing balm – a buffer of pain if there ever was one. Know this is the most powerful antidote for fear and sorrow; the most effective – and addictive – cure-all known in all of creation; an elixir for that otherwise, elusive kind of happiness – the kind that weathers, endures and remains in all seasons and conditions.
— Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?
— Shannon L. Alder
I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.
— Colleen Hoover, Confess
Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.
— James          Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner
I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
who says love is better than hate. i feel both gives equivalent pain.
— shivangi lavaniya
When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.
— Shampa Sharma
But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.
— Mark W. Boyer
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
— Criss Jami
Bitter truths have the power to expect backups if they are shared at all.
— Hira Mariam
Sam groaned. A warmth on her face alerted her to the new morning. She opened one eye and peered at the fuzzy daylight streaming in through the window. Her head throbbed like a bitch. Her mouth felt like a carpet. She pushed herself off the couch and stood up shakily, kicking bottles as she stumbled to her small kitchen. Every movement was painful and slow. She was a sloth tight-roping through time. She held onto the basin for a moment to steady herself. She grabbed a plastic cup and opened the tap, letting it flow as she filled and refilled it, gulping down as much water as she could. She splashed her face, neck and chest with water, then refilled the cup and dumped the contents over her head. She stood there, unaware of the moments passing by, as the water dripped down her body. Willing herself to wake up and feel better. Willing the nausea into oblivion.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
Only a person who has lost somebody can understand the pain.
— Deyth Banger
It had started to drizzle. The lamp poles cast a kaleidoscope of light dancing across the puddles in the road. The rain made Sam feel even more lost now, as if these shadowy events were invisible to the world. As if the night was cloaked in anonymity. This wasn’t a peaceful rain - it was a sad one. A drizzle, which wept for the inevitable. Sam knew even if she got Alison out of this alive, the cuts on their lives had already been made, pooling the blood of consequence beneath their feet as the night dragged on. Whichever way this went, they’d have scars from this night. Scars and scabs and things which could not be spoken. And that made her feel utterly hopeless.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.
— Hira Mariam
Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
— Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship
It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better as time went on. These moments are one of the rarest, most fragile things in the world. You have to seize the day; you have to recall all the rotten, dirty things you endured to earn this peace. You have to remember to enjoy each minute, each hour, because although you may feel like it's going to last forever, the world plans otherwise. You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can't do it. It's not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven't your ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it's reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent.
— George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails
We all find means of anesthesia.
— Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader
Tragedies can contain some of life’s greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, ‘You seek problems because you need their gifts.’ Why would you rob someone of these benefits?
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
Her body was tense, her small teeth sunk into her upper lip. Her eyes flashed upward at Aloysius, and he started at what he saw in them. Pain. It was normal to feel some pain at the bestowing of a Mark, but what he saw in Adele's eyes- was agony.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
Deep pain awakens the pleasure of wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life.
— Kemi Sogunle
She wore her scarsas her best attire.A stunning dressmade of hellfire.
— Daniel Saint
A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.
— Mika Yamamori
People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile.
— Karon Waddell
Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apartand you sit in the battle field stitching back yourselfone piece at a timelaughing in the faces of all defeats.
— Chetan M. Kumbhar, Panasu The Golden City & The Capasstars
Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
God heals the human heart from any brokenness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It took me years to stop feeling the guilt she made sure I kept feeling about what happened with him. He is a sick person that molests children, but I felt so bad about it for so long. I couldn't talk to a single person about any of this. No one. And she made me feel so bad about it all that I felt I shouldn't talk about it, even if there was someone. I felt ashamed and thought I was an awful person. Sometimes I still do. My mother abandoned me in the worst ways possible.
— Ashly Lorenzana, Speed Needles
Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!
— Anthony Liccione
Only the sufferers of injustice can realize its intensity - Iman Musa Al-Kazim
— Abu Mohammed Al H Bin Shu'ba Al Harrani, Tuhaf UL Uqoul
Do not allow the fear of hurting stop you from loving.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Forgiveness heals any brokenness in the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When some one use "You", in stead of "Us", It makes you cry, because in love whatever happens it need to be happen in both end, if its only "I" or "You" then the value of love becomes singular and everyone can feel or need to know, in LOVE singular never works......
— Nutan Bajracharya
Without hardships, how could we know hope?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes
— Kjiva
I was unhappy there and going through a rough transition, so I was desperate for any friend I could find that I could talk to. I thought that's what he was. We had this secret from my mom, who I didn't like much at the time. It was a harmless secret, so I didn't feel bad about it. All we did was go to the movies and hang out doing fun things all day. It wasn't until much later that the warning signs began, but I was still too young and stupid to see them for what they were at the time. Basically, he was patient as he built up the trust between us. He became a close friend and convinced me that he was on my side somehow. He took total advantage of my ignorance and totally betrayed me a few years later, when he slept with me. After my mom found out, she went psychotic and all she gave a fuck about was what had been done to her. She didn't care about anything except for how hurt she was by what had happened. She blamed me and him equally, telling me that sixteen years old was old enough to know better. Even though I never initiated a goddamn thing with him, and never would have. Even though it happened in the apartment she and I had gotten together, that he was not supposed to be staying in.
— Ashly Lorenzana, Speed Needles
To be hurt is, sometimes, a lucky thing—a fortunate interruption along a road that otherwise may have ended in blindly hurting others. When we heal from being hurt by a person, we realize the importance of not hurting people. Perhaps it is not the most fun way to learn this lesson, but it is a method of life's teachings nonetheless.
— Vironika Tugaleva
pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible.
— shivangi lavaniya
How can he call it all fun? Does all this. all this trauma and torture that he made me go through means nothing? What if he had to go through the same, what then? What if his legs would be itching right now from all the pain that they spent being dragged?
— Ritika Chhabra, A Dark Love
The wounds from that time have already become scabs.
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 3 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 3]
Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain.
— Cathryn Alpert, Rocket City
How about when you feel as if you are at a treacherous crossing, facing an area of life that hasn’t even been on the map until recently. Suddenly there it is, right in front of you.And so the time and space in between while you first get over the shock of it, and you have to figure out WHAT must be done feels excruciating. It’s a nightmare you can’t awaken from. You might remember this time as a kind of personal D-day, as in damage, devastation, destruction, damnation, desolation – maybe a difficult divorce, or even diagnosis of some formidable disease. These are the days of our lives that whole, beautiful chapters of life go up in flames. And all you can do is watch them burn. Until you feel as though you are left only with the ashes of it all. It is at this moment you long for the rescue and relief that only time can provide. It is in this place, you must remember that in just 365 days – you're at least partially healed self will be vastly changed, likely for the better. Perhaps not too unlike a caterpillar’s unimaginable metamorphosis.Better. Stronger. Wiser. Tougher. Kinder. More fragile, more firm, all at the same time as more free. You will have gotten through the worst of it – somehow. And then it will all be different. Life will be different. You will be different. It might or might not ever make sense, but it will be more bearable than it seems when you are first thrown, with no warning, into the kilns of life with the heat stoked up – or when you get wrapped up, inexplicably, through no choice of your own, in a dark, painfully constricting space. Go ahead, remind yourself as someone did earlier, who was trying miserably to console you. It will eventually make you a better, stronger person. How’d they say it? More beautiful on the inside…It really will, though. That’s the kicker. Even if, in the hours of your agony, you would have preferred to be less beautiful, wise, strong, or experienced than apparently life, fate, your merciless ex, or a ruthless, biological, or natural enemy that has attacked silently, and invisibly - has in mind for you. As will that which your God feels you are capable of enduring, while you, in your pitiful anguish, are yet dubious of your own ability to even endure, not alone overcome.I assure you now, you will have joy and beauty, where there was once only ashes. In time. Perhaps even more than before. It’s so hard to imagine and believe it when it’s still fresh, and so, so painful. When it hurts too much to even stand, or think, or feel anything. When you are in the grip of fear, and you remember the old familiar foe, or finally understand, firsthand, in your bones, what that actually means.
— Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'd never known that I could feel this broken and whole at once.
— Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom
MOTHER IS WATERI wish I couldShower your head with flowersAnd anoint your feet with my tears,For I know I have caused youSo much heartache, frustration and despair –Throughout my youthful years.I wish I could give youThe remainder of my lifeTo add to yours,Or simply eraseThe lines on your face,And mend all that has been torn.For next to God,You are the fireThat has given lightTo the flame in each of my eyes.You are the fountainThat nourished my growth,And from your chalice –Gave me life.Without the wetness of your love,The fragrance of your water,Or the trickling sounds ofYour voice,I shall always feelthirsty.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain — run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.
— Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things
As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain
— Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partner who is hurting often finds that their mate is unwilling to 'hear' the pain. Women often tell me that they feel emotionally beaten down when their partners refuse to listen or talk. When women communicate from a place of pain, it is often characterized as 'nagging.' Sometimes women hear repeatedly that their partners are 'sick of listening to this shit.' Both cases undermine self-esteem. Those of us who were wounded in childhood often were shamed and humiliated when we expressed hurt. It is emotionally devastating when the partners we have chosen will not listen. Usually, partners who are unable to respond compassionately when hearing us speak our pain, whether they understand it or not, are unable to listen because that expressed hurt triggers their own feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. Many men never want to feel helpless or vulnerable. They will, at times, choose to silence a partner with violence rather than witness emotional vulnerability. When a couple can identify this dynamic, they can work on the issue of caring, listening to each other's pain by engaging in short conversations at appropriate times (i.e., it's useless to try and speak your pain to someone who is bone weary, irritable, reoccupied, etc.). Setting a time when both individuals come together to engage in compassionate listening enhances communication and connection. When we are committed to doing the work of love we listen even when it hurts.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Jesus didn’t have to extend His love. He didn’t have to think of me when He went up on that cross. He didn’t have to rewrite my story from one of beauty to one of brokenness and create a whole new brand of beauty. He simply didn’t have to do it, but He did. He bought me. He bought me that day He died, and He showed His power when He overcame death and rose from the grave. He overcame my death in that moment. He overcame my fear of death in that unbelievable, beautiful moment, and the fruit of that death, that resurrection, and that stunning grace is peace. It is the hardest peace, because it is brutal. Horribly brutal and ugly, and we want to look away, but it is the greatest, greatest story that ever was. And it was, and it is.
— Kara Tippetts, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.
— Odette Beane, Reawakened
MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha!MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:
— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
Pain and pleasure, it's a sweet delectable combination." ~ Alexander Hudson
— Joshua Erik Rossi, A Sweet Delectable Combination: Pain and Pleasure
Don't consider painful what's good for you.
— Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night
She threw herself across her bed, weeping into a pillow. She knew just what she wanted -- the desire was a fierce ache inside her. But fiercer still was the knowledge that it was beyond the reach of a female.
— Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.
— Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Every sensation makes a person who they are. Even pain.
— Gaja J. Kos, The Dark Ones
We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. The power to heal from the pain equips us with the strength to rise up again and move beyond it all. We not only become stronger but wise enough to recognize and handle pain in the future. We however, have to learn to let the brick walls fall down so that we can experience true love once more. We must learn from pain and let it lead us to the most beautiful parts of our journey in life. Only then can our stories become fully complete.
— Kemi Sogunle
I didn't falter and together we matched, step for step. Each swing of the sword was blocked, each step countered. No blade ever made contact with flash. We twirled around; my concentration far too focussed to feel dizzy. All I could see was Macrucio's wicked smirk, one that reminded me far more of my past than even Nathaniel did. I wasn't fighting Macrucio now; it was my former life I had to eradicate.
— Freedom Matthews, Inherited
the more a person smiles... the more is the pain he resides...
— shivangi lavaniya
Bear your pain or it will come back
— Alok Jagawat
It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.
— Kenneth Eade, Decree of Finality
Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.
— Stephen King
Once you understand pain, You will never be able to share it with others
— Alok Jagawat
And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain.
— Alain de Botton
Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?
— Kemi Sogunle
Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your belief in what is fair, what is real, what is forgiveable, what is not and what type of person will you become today now that you know.
— Shannon L. Alder
When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.
— Io Sakisaka
In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Never ever seek for gratefulness from mankind, you shall always see ungratefulness. Do what you must do as a solemn duty and that is what you have to do!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Healing isn’t just about pain. It’s about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them.
— Laura Thalassa, The Queen of Traitors
Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort proffered.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain.
— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert
Beyond the limit of suffering is strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.
— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert
I fought with all I had, a battle led by heart and faith. I fought till I had nothing. How do you restart without a heart or faith?? Now lost, broken and with no direction, I often wonder if I should have quit , while I had something left in the tank.
— Terry Houchin
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andreievich stared ahead of him out of the window, as if he were not looking at the snow but were still reading Tonia’s letter and as if what flickered past him were not small dry snow crystals but the spaces between the small black letters, white, white, endless, endless.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Only nurture a broken heart that recognizes it, and is willing to put in the work of minding.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going to lose a little bit of yourself in the process. You're also going to retain a little DNA from the one you lost.
— Toni Sorenson
When experience is bought by pain, it teaches.
— Unknown, Roman Proverb
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the 'rests.' They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a 'rest,'" let us not forget '"there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson! - Ruskin
— Leslie Ludy, When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure
Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself.
— Catherine Cookson, Feathers in the Fire
Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
— Phillips Brooks
I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.
— Hideaki Sorachi
I had also never realized before that I loved him, but I did. And his pain was my pain, and it hurt, but it also felt good in a strange way, knowing that we could share in it together.
— Emma Mills, First & Then
It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.
— Xainee
Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,so that no wound will separate us.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
To let go is easy but hard to bury the memory itself. We trust, we love, we conquer to be happy. Love doesn't exist in one way but the other. We get hurt, we suffer. Believe that it happens for a reason and a purpose. Accept and let go of pain but keep the memory it reminds how strong we've gone so far.
— Glazl Bugaoan
At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.
— Jasmine Sandozz
There are two types of pain; one that hurt you, and one that changes who you are.
— Jettie Woodruff, Black Rain
...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.
— Orhan Pamuk
We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.
— Bruce R. McConkie
Why dwell on the pain, when you can focus on peaceful thoughts?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Souls are hurting
—  need hope.
May your turn your pain into prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as time goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we still expect that somehow tomorrow will all come back into balance and that we will go on. At some point, the exquisite balance has tipped, and despite all our flailing efforts, we begin the slow fall from the body that maintains itself to the body that struggles, nails clawing, to cling to what it used to be.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.
— Leigh Allison Wilson
Our Lord shouts and screams
— his tears fall from heaven and spring the streams
With a strong spirit , you heal every bruise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.
— Dada Bhagwan
It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.
— Oscar Wilde
The definition of tragedy is when people do not communicate yet struggle to conceal the pain.
— Ken Poirot
For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened... I don’t know the reasons why, I just know that you must keep believing in hope and eventually you will get through.
— Heather Wolf
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?...This is where mindfulness can help us.
— David Michie, The Power of Meow
When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
Her eyes bled from venomous anger...Her flower had been gruesomely deflowered...Her life had slowly turned into a blunder...There was no more thinking further....She would rather become a Foetus murderer Than end up a "hopeless" mother....Of course, she found peace in the formerUntil later years of emotional traumaOh, the foetus hunt was forever!The only thing you should abort is the thought of aborting your baby. Stop the hate and violence against innocent children.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
— Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
This pride of yours, it’s admirable as all get-out, but there has to come a point in your life where you admit you need a hand. Pain might be necessary, but suffering is optional. Are you going to let me be the fucking man here and help my woman?
— Kate Meader, Taking the Score
Let go of your pain and heal your wounds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.
— Anthony Liccione
From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
I remember touching her hand for the first time. I remember kissing her angelic soft lips for the first time . Everything seemed so easy , everything seemed possible . She smiled at me and flew away
— Amine Fatmi
For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.
— Anthony Liccione
He faced Doug. His eyes were wet. "I am not one of your tricks, Douglas.""Of course, you're not.""That's what I feel like tonight, seeing you in there with all those bodies. One of a thousand nights. One of a thousand fucks. And fuck you for making me feel this way. And fuck you again for making me say fuck in this beautiful place.
— Eric Arvin, Another Enchanted April
People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering self seems to stick to the Peak-End rule even when the ending is an anomaly. Just a few minutes without pain at the end of their medical procedure dramatically reduced patients’ overall pain ratings even after they’d experienced more than half an hour of high level of pain. “That wasn’t so terrible,” they’d reported afterward. A bad ending skewed the pain scores upward just as dramatically.
— Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Do I need a safe word?" "You either tust me or you don't, Emily.
— Laurelin Paige, First Touch
Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, “Touch her, I’ll break your neck.
— Laurelin Paige, First Touch
Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, "Touch her, I’ll break your neck.
— Laurelin Paige, First Touch
It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.
— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...
— John J. Geddes
Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.
— Anonymous
Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.
— James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.
— Catherine Doyle, Inferno
Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.
— Kemi Sogunle
The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.
— A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life
No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.
— Ondjaki, The Whistler
I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't realize is that perpetrating shame is equally as painful, and no one does that with the precision of a partner or a parent. These are the people who know us the best and who bear witness to our vulnerabilities and fears. Thankfully, we can apologize for shaming someone we love, but the truth is that those shaming comments leave marks. And shaming someone we love around vulnerability is the most serious of all security breaches. Even if we apologize, we've done serious damage because we've demonstrated our willingness to use sacred information as a weapon.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
Let it go and learn from the process.
— Nash
The only way through pain is love.
— Shannon L. Alder
High heels? Painful pleasure.
— Christian Dior
And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
Love is about heartbreak, If you think it’s fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even more heartbreak.
— Glenn Hefley
when you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the supposedly intelligent are often too quick to judgewhen really all that's needed is loveand understandingbut try not to judge them in return because they will often judge themselves even more harshlywhich is so sad in a world that's already so full of pain that hugsand forgiveness should be called forevery single day
— Jay Woodman
The best part about turning to the dark side of you, it sets you free.
— Neetesh Dixit
There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Love can conquer every hateful heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise
The greatest healing is forgiveness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.
— Debasish Mridha
YOU MIGHT LEAVE ME FOR MY BETTER OR WORST, BUT FOR ME, I WANNA LIVE WITH YOU FOR OUR BETTER AND WORST.
— Azmara Veera
Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throbbing pain has slowly turned into numbing emptiness..
— Laarni Venus Marie
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.
— Amy Engel, The Revolution of Ivy
Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Ryukyu Kobujutsu : Bo - Tanbo - Toifa
The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain and tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the seabather comes after the icy shok of the sea bath.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Let go of the pain. Dwell on positive thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy!
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be With me through Eternity, Such thy power, memory.Three grey women walk with me.
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn’s feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.
— Paul S. Kemp, Deceived
Do you know what hurts so much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when that happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of use dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
— Corrie ten Boom
Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn’t work that way, and fucking up was forever.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afraid of pain. She realized now that when she'd thought that, she hadn't understood how painful existence could get. It could get so painful, it turned out, that any other kind of pain began to seem preferable. She felt ridiculous thinking these goth-teenager thoughts, but they were real.
— Emily Gould, Friendship
I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon.
— Melissa Keil, Life in Outer Space
Fear,” she says, “is more powerful than pain.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Life is too short to miss out on anything, even if it's pain.
— J.T. Geissinger
It hurt like hell, but at least it felt true. Her mind could settle into that pain.
— Faith McKay, Lipstick & Zombies
When do we stop crying over our own injuries? When we get old enough to swallow our tears, or when the people we love stop responding to our cries of pain?
— Carol Cassella, Oxygen
You're too scared of what it means to feel anything that matters. You're scared to love, and you hide behind this mission to destroy the code.
— Heidi Tankersley, The Mod Code
These souls were eternally disconnected, forever separated with a force that would not allow any interchange. They were like another race with no societal tie to each other, bound on their own miserable, independent journeys, alike only in the obvious countenance of pain.
— R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley
Adapt to any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control.
— Dugald Black
If the pain is not felt or it doesn't hurt you...it can never change you. Being susceptible to pain is a blessing.
— Mamur Mustapha
The hardest part of letting go is the "uncertainty"--when you are afraid that the moment you let go of someone you will hate yourself when you find out how close you were to winning their affection. Every time you give yourself hope you steal away a part of your time, happiness and future. However, once in a while you wake up to this realization and you have to hold on tightly to this truth because your heart will tear away the foundation of your logic, by making excuses for why this person doesn't try as much as you. The truth is this: Real love is simple. We are the ones that make it complicated. A part of disconnecting is recognizing the difference between being desired and being valued. When someone loves you they will never keep you waiting, give their attention and affection away to others, allow you to continue hurting, or ignore what you have gone through for them. On the other hand, a person that desires you can't see your pain, only what they can get from you with minimal effort in return. They let you risk everything, while they guard their heart and reap the benefits of your feelings. We make so many excuses for the people we fall in love with and they make up even more to remain one foot in the door. However, the truth is God didn't create you to be treated as an option or to be disrespected repeatedly. He wants you to close the door. If someone loves you and wants to be in your life no obstacle will keep them from you. Remember, you are royalty, not a beggar.
— Shannon L. Alder
When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.
— Shannon L. Alder
Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.
— John Mark Green
Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.
— John Mark Green
The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.
— Sara Nović, Girl at War