Avoidance Quote by Mary Balogh

“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

“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

“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of…

— Jane Austen

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

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Grant

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

— Stephen King

“In my mother's time, [pain] was a secret burden, and women were admired for their ability to ignore, to be silent, to be selfless....…

— Terese Marie Mailhot

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find…

— Haruki Murakami

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Jeane Westin

“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and superficial smile.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“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