Quote by Joseph O'Neill

“I kept expecting the nurses and patients to come suddenly alive, and raise the alarm, or even attack us. Instead, the nurses stood very…

— Simon R. Green

“I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered…

— Kate White

“One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the…

— Abeba Habtu

“a person has to go through a lot of pain to get to comfort!”

— Bertice Berry

“I survived A dreadful accident In the car crash of the century My shattered hopes Collapsed on cold cement But in the back of…

— Owl City

“Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a…

— Russell Brand

“And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once, in a sunset-ending street of Beardsley, she turned…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so…

— Lydia Lunch

“In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.”

— Suzanne Berne

“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in…

— Sibylla Matilde

“I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In…

— Jean Hegland

“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, with someone, a…

— Milan Kundera