We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
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Quotes tagged ‘Pain’
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
Because it is beyond all bearing – The pain of loving soul’s silence.
The further inside you hide the hurt, the more it hurts inside. All wounds need air to heal.
It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
Words don’t hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
Sometimes I forget that unsaid sentences do not mean unfelt emotions.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
There were grief and ruins, and you were the miracle.
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love — that person keeps changing. And later you wonder.. is this the same person I lost?
A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.