She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its…

“It surprised him that his grief was sharper than in the past few days. He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a…

— Helen Simonson

“She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of…

— Michelle Latiolais

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a…

— Simone Weil

A study found that music can actually relieve emotional & some physical pain.

— Anonymous

“I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the mental and/or…

— Tobe Hanson

“We cut ourselves. Not by accident, we do it purposely, and regularly, because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a…

— Shelly Stoehr

After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and…

— Andre Dubus

“The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath…Compassion is…

— Billy Graham

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain…

— Barbara

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there…

— Alex Ebert

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California.…

— Sue Johnson

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

— Mason Cooley

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“You want to know how I see you?' Forster's voice turned husky. Detta's mouth was swollen from grazing his stubble and he couldn't stop…

— M.A. Kuzniar

“All he felt was sorrow, as if he’d been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That’s all it was—sorrow. That, and…

— Haruki Murakami