Alive Quote by Ayn Rand

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged…

— Mary Balogh

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

— Sherman Alexie

She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal…

— Anonymous

She tried to stay strong, but the pain was too wild. A smile, so lovely, you wouldn't believe it was fake. The pressure to…

— Me

“Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.”

— Jeane Westin

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

— Abraham Verghese

The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt…

— Tessa Dare

The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

— Michael Grant

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense…

— Haruki Murakami

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart…

— Rachel Vincent

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed…

— Sara Zarr