Quotes about pain
pain way needs
Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel. Ellen Hopkins
pain eye arrows
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain. Ellen Hopkins
pain eye heart
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. Ellen Hopkins
pain weight feels
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain. Ellen Hopkins
pain memories cutting
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. Ellen Hopkins
pain believe needs
I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all? Ellen Hopkins
pain believe thinking
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...] Ellen Hopkins
pain sleep sunshine
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious. Elizabeth Goudge
pain heart voice
The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again. Elizabeth Goudge
pain attitude passion
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre. Elizabeth Gaskell
pain miserable bodily-pain
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. Elizabeth Gaskell
pain grief numbness
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy. Elizabeth Gilbert
pain meditation feelings
in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation. Elizabeth Gilbert
pain stupid ideas
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
pain suffering purpose
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss. Elizabeth Gilbert
pain moving loss
No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends. Elisabeth Sladen
pain unconditional-love thinking
I think 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 Kubler-Ross
pain grieving forever
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
pain real grief
Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
pain storm break-out
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world. Eknath Easwaran
paint airy steam
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. John Constable
pain may height
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future. Joel Osteen
pain steel pity
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse Joe Abercrombie
pain past moments
I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain. Louise Hay
pain lying mean
Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. The reality of true forgiveness lies in setting ourselves free from holding on to the pain. It is simply an act of releasing yourself from the negative energy. Louise Hay
pain joy unanswered-questions
When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain? Lou Rawls
pain honesty bravery
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. John Cassavetes
pain desire like-you
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. Lisa Kleypas
pain attachment plus
I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain. Lisa Bonet
pain artist shapes
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. Lionel Trilling
pain soul slave
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. Link Wray
pain redneck rocks
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. Link Wray
painting fleetwood-mac macs
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. Lindsey Buckingham