Pain Quotes - Page 40

• Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

  Terry Pratchett

  Angel, Heaven, Looks

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• There is some pain that nothing heals" [Zarek}

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heal

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.261, Macmillan

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• One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Blessing, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.173, St. Martin's Press

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• I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Heart, Advice, Dr Phil

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1542, Penguin

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• There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya

  Tite Kubo

  Stupid, Men, Old Man

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• Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hands, Choices, Doubt

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Real, Believe

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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• The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

  Frank Peretti

  Father, Lying, Cry

  Frank Peretti (2012). “Prophet: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

  Ted Dekker

  Mind, Kind, Problem

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.932, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

  Ishmael Beah

  Sky, Confusion, Long

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• Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

  William P. Young

  Loss, Hands, Forgiving

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• Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said. Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.' Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Talking, Forever, Idiot

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• Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Care, New Friends, Felt

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• Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

  Graham Greene

  Night, Light, Long

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

  D. A. Carson

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Exegetical Fallacies”, p.9, Baker Books

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• No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Dark, May

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jan 11, 2012

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• Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, House, Coward

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• One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hands, Names, One Day

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75

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• I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Sadness, Labels, Sardines

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Fear, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4

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• I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mouths, Shots, Burned

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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

  Bob Dylan

  Falling In Love, Morning, Flower

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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• Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Names, Numbers

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• I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

  Ann Patchett

  Wanted, My Own

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• That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Giving, Mind

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.277, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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