“What do you do about emotional pain, Lionel?’ I ask. In red lamplight, she rises from the bath like the prow of… — Catriona Ross Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Love is pain, love is blind, but it is also a state of mind. I can play the games you do, I… — Tani Graves Copy Share Image
“The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains,… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they?… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
Re-reading old messages, and realizing what you lost. Realizing how amazing they were, but how wrong you were. Wanting to go back… — Kayla Jackson Copy Share Image
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“NO!" Raffe grips me as if he can bind my soul to my body. An upside-down view of the doorway shows up… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
“This book attempts to record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?' 'What is to fear?" answered the black… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
“I knew this guy he'd been in a motorcycle accident and it really ruined him and he was a linesman working on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again,” he continued, “it is… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.… — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The most beautiful and dependable people I have ever known are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggles, loss and have found… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image