Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging...

My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying...

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have k...

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And th...

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.