Pain Quotes - Page 39

• Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Feelings

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• On the other side of pain, there is still love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Deep Thought, Sides

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• The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

  Terry Eagleton

  Jesus, Justice, Done

  Terry Eagleton (2014). “Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

  Marilyn Manson

  Ashamed, Repeats

  Song: Devour, Album: The High End of Low, 2009

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Heart, Doors

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• My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

  Dave Eggers

  Color, Wings, Organization

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• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Joy, Tragedy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Thinking, Rose

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• Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sight, Giving, Blind

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• I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Care, Hold Me, Ruined

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• I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

  Frank O'Hara

  Believe, Common Sense, Bed

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• Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Broken, Cruelty

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

  Jacqueline Carey

  Heart, Flesh, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.127, Macmillan

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• From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

  Leonard Cohen

  Passion, Heart, Play

  Song: Villanelle For Our Time, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

  Maya Angelou

  Hurt, Honesty, Self Worth

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

  Gayle Forman

  Hurt, Real, Loss

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 07, 2014

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• Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

  Gayle Forman

  Loss, Profound, Feelings

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.111, Penguin

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• But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

  Julius Lester

  Wind, Evil, Envy

  Julius Lester (2009). “Guardian”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

  Anna Godbersen

  Running, Tired, Giving

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• Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Last night, driving back from Boston, I lay back in the car and let the colored lights come at me, the music from the radio, the reflection of the guy driving. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain ... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.

  Sylvia Plath

  Taken, Bye, Survival

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Talking, Alaska, Suffering

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• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Air, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Ignorance, Insanity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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• ...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Eye, Reality, Color

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• I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Color, People

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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