quotations about pain
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
IRVIN D. YALOM
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Unless our souls had root in soil divine
We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife.
The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,
Convinces me of everlasting life.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Pain's Proof"
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale
I will give you a charm against sorrow: smile at the kisses of Pain.
She is a sensitive lover and likes not to be flouted.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Collected Poems and Plays
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus at Colonus
There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
Kraken
Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more.
DR. MEREDITH GREY
"Bring the Pain", Grey's Anatomy, 2005
Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it's educating
DEPECHE MODE
"Dream On"