#pain

…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes. ↗

— Rebecca Wells

#pain #love

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sad #tragic #true-love #love

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#pain #sorrow #love

It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#pain #alex

It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that fact. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #life #pain #pleasure #sadomasochism

Falling in love is painful on the knees. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#love #pain #humor

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#humor #pain #humor

L'amore non esiste per renderci felici, ma per dimostrarci quando sia forte la nostra capacità di sopportare il dolore. ↗

— Alessandro D'Avenia

#felicity #love #pain #love

It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I'm not sure, but there is comfort in the fact that I am in the hands of expert guides, both in the doctor's office and at home with Sue. ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#guilt #healing #journey #onion #painful

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#dogs #dyslexia #god #humor #insomnia