Pain Quote by Alice Hoffman

“I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and…

— Alice Hoffman

“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger that knifes…

— Roland Merullo

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.”

— Bryant McGill

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”

— Bryant McGill

“I was in pain and wanted others to feel it, too.”

— Diary Of An Oxygen Thief

“You let people into your life and you ended up getting hurt. Or hurting them. Either way, the road to pain was paved with…

— Stacia Kane

“Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

— Mitch Albom

“The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.”

— Bryant McGill

“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame…

— Olivia Laing

“I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasn't what I thought…

— Stephen King

“People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.”

— Vivian Amis

“Life so often becomes a determined, relentless avoidance of pain - of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain has to be acknowledged…

— Mary Balogh