“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Pain
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Sadness, Pain, Grief, Loss
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Grief, Despair, Pain
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Nostalgia, Pain, Lost Love
“You're so outraged and surprised this shitty thing happened to you that there's a piece of you that isn't yet convinced it did. You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reverses its course. Anyone would be. It's the reason I've had to narrate my own st…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Injustice, Anger
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Embracing Pain, Suffering, Grief, Breakups
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Grief, Loss, Love
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Healing, strength
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Sadness, Pain
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.comTagged: Compassion, Love, Empathy, Empath, Pain
“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over, 'Other people feel this way.'”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Pain, Depression, Suffering, Not Alone, Loneliness
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Tragedy, Pain, humanity, Safety
“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”— Ali Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Change, Resisting Change, Reality, Facing Reality, Suffering
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”— Myra McEntire, amazon.comTagged: Emptiness, Pain, Depression, Self-Concept, Emotion
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.comTagged: forgiveness, Change, Pain, Loss, Grief
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”— Robin Benway, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Fighting Back, Suffering, Sadness
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Pain, Suffering, Healing, Change, Permanence
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Self-Love, Self-Help
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Breakups, strength, Weakness
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, Trauma, Grief, Moving On
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”— R. R. Martin, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Grief, Trauma
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Loss, Grief, Breakups
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Grief, Stories, Perception, Worthlessness
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering, Overcoming Pain, Moving On
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep lo…”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.comTagged: Failure, Disappointment, Loss
“Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.”— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, amazon.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships