sometimes life isn't worth the pain. i'm going for a swim. goodbye, my love. - Jake Vander Ark I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain. - L M Montgomery I don't want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk. - Hannah Harrington All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was worth it. Here, he could see her eyes and bask in her smiles-even when she wasn't smiling for him. Every day was worth the pain. - Aprilynne Pike Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. - N...

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? - Aeschylus Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen. - Paulo Coelho I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. - Hermann Hesse A lesson witho...

Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87 - Melody Beattie Life is unbearable pain. - Santosh Kalwar

Some days I want to put my head in the sand. There's too much pain out there, there's too much that scares me. But I wouldn't be able to breathe with my head in the sand, and I wouldn't be able to hear or see or smell. The world is a lovely place...despite the sadness it holds for each of us, despite the terrible things we do. - James Howe ...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever. - Kristin Hannah There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in e...

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. - Mark Twain What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have spent more time in the Emporer's prisons. - Joe Abercrombie Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him. - Keith Ablow And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. - Jacob Bronowski Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee...

Without you, I'm lost, fumbling and falling Missing so much of who you were If I could change the past, I'd take it all back I'd turn back time, I'd take away the pain I'd make sure I didn't leave without you - Monica Alexander [Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain. - Margaret Coel He pulled her close and kissed her the way he'd been wanting to for weeks. There was the smallest of hesitations then she kissed him back, her body straining toward his almost desperately. She tasted of salty tears and need and he tightened his arms around her, wanting to take away the pain he'd caused her, needing to make things right between them. - Sarah Mayberry I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you s...

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive. - Lisa Kleypas You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. - Emilie Autumn In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering? - Janet Fitch Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almo...

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. - Victoria Abril You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. - Henry Brooks Adams You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive. - Jodi Picoult Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. - Lance Armstrong The greatest evil is physical pain. - Saint Augustine In most cases learning something essential in ...

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing. - Greg Behrendt Pain is temporary, film is forever. - Michael J Fox

Your pain is a school unto itself and your joy a lovely temple. - Aberjhani Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68) - Keith Ablow The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. - Jacob Bronowski Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run. - Kathy Acker Sometimes pain is for the greater good. - Veronica Roth I felt that pain is a woman's friend.' 'That is the danger.' 'I also felt that pain has it's limits.' 'That is the salvation. Don't forget that. - Paulo Coelho Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. - Sherman Alexie The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-s...