#pain

Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it. ↗

Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared. ↗

— Eric Gamalinda

#sad #love

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul. ↗

— Gianna Perada

#healing #life-and-living #moving #pain #rebirth

Only someone you loved could make you wear that kind of expression. Someone who had once loved you knew how to get to the part of you where the pain lived. ↗

— Dorothy Koomsoon

#love #pain #love

Do I ever feel like anything? ↗

— Nyrae Dawn

#pain #philosophical #romance #love

You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via dreams or by means of reading literature. It is impossible to learn from someone else's experience unless we don't assume this experience as our own's, which we can achieve only by living it anew and from scratch. We can not live our lives at someone else's expense. Only life fraught with dangers and risks and lived as your own's deserves its name. Only selfish people do not live their lives as if they do not belong entirely to them. Cowardice equals a life that you refuse to live at its fullest and at its most dangerous. ↗

— Martin Walser

#pain #dreams

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. ↗