#pain

Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#hurt-love #longing-for-love #pain #time #true-love-waits

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#pain #love

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#love #pain #pleasure #love

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#men #mothers #pain #men

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#freedom #healing #life #living #motivation

Some injuries can only be cured by our creator. We can try to hide them but the pain is too deep. These are the moments in every human's life that we seek for a cure, when the pain becomes too much to bare. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#inspiration #pain #spiritual #inspirational

What is it like to wear another person’s skin?” “I don’t have a good answer for that,” I said. “It hurts.” “Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt? ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#memory #pain #skin #love

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#break-ups #love #pain #beauty

Some days I wake up and all I feel are the fractures in the flesh that covers the only me I've ever known. Some days, it's those exact fissures that let the light hiding inside me pour out and cover in gold everyone that found enough beauty in the cracks to stand close. ↗

— Tyler Knott Gregson

#pain #poetry #beauty