“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for awhile. It relaxes me.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Jace to Alec, pg. 318
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
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“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“… The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”
Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant
Source: The Vampire's Assistant
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
Donna Jo Napoli (1948) American children's writer and linguist
Source: Sirena
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
Milan Kundera book Identity
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it”
Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“… mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980) American psychiatrist
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Quoted in "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; also quoted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, in the Avenged Sevenfold song "Bat Country", and in Kingdom S02E04.
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
Siri Hustvedt (1955) novelist, essayist, poet
Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
“Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused”
Elliot Perlman book Seven Types of Ambiguity
Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity
“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”
Hugh Laurie book The Gun Seller
Source: The Gun Seller
“i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.”
Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Walk