- “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
“I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
- “I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
“Without pain, how could we know joy?”
“It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
“Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling.”
- “I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
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Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”
“I thought I’d lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while.“
“Pain insists upon being attended to.”
“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”
“It’s a tear. It’s for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride.“
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.”
- “The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes.”
“Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal.”
“Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now.”
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.”
“No one commits suicide because they want to die. It’s because they want to stop the pain.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here.”
“Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing.”
“When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside – that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can’t. That pain just stays in place.”
“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it’s more of a large and tastefully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
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In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain.”
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
“You are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It’s real.”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain.”
Word Prompts // Pain
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