Awake Quote by Libba Bray

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

— Libba Bray

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

— Beth Moore

“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”

— Enid Shomer

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

— Scott Lynch

My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained…

— Peter Kropotkin

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the…

— Marianne Williamson

“How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing”

— Scott Lynch

“But there was a cost to that surcease from pain, Fool. When you dull pain and hide it from yourself…” My words trickled away.…

— Robin Hobb

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

— Sheryl Sandberg

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have…

— Ellar Coltrane

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

— Sylvia Plath

“Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achieve a complete and blissful…

— Nigel McDowell