Quotes about Pain

Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.

The tons of steel of the Russian tanks were nothing compared with it. For there is nothing heavier compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal

Love is easily killed.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

So far as I know, childbirth is generally painful in only one of the millions of species on Earth: human beings. This must be a consequence of the recent and continuing increase in cranial volume... Childbirth is painful because the evolution of the human skull has been spectacularly fast and recent.

Everyone here is in a lot of pain, and as they say, hurting people hurt people. Part of your recovery

If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time.