Pain Quote by Carol James Marshall

“As a woman ravaged by intense pain and the loss of virtually all my life’s goals, I have been transformed by suffering and love.…

— Cynthia Toussaint

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney

“She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact…

— Ayn Rand

“During those few days and nights, pain had moved into S. as if into its own house. She felt occupied. A previously unknown illness…

— Slavenka Drakulić

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare with nothing…

— J. Autherine

“Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people,…

— Kristin Cashore

“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as…

— John le Carré

“She found it soothing to get caught up in a brightly colored, plastic world where all that mattered was how much you ate and…

— Liane Moriarty

“Discomfort begets discomfort in others.”

— Lionel Shriver

“A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to…

— Neetha Joseph

“Nina had spent a lot of time with injured or dying people, standing witness, revealing universal pain through individual suffering.”

— Kristin Hannah