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“The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldnt look too closely at another persons pain.”
“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...”
“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
“Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race”
“She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a serie...”
“Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.”
“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”
“Ever hurt so bad you want to scream ... or scream so much it hurts.”
“It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.”
“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain ...”
“So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to...”
“The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of thi...”
“No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry...”
“If little labour, little are our gains:Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
“Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.”
“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. Its diplomatic pain. Its television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. ...”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is ...”
“Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.”
