Action Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye

“Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so…

— Alice Hoffman

“To consider possibilities was to open yourself up to pain.”

— Cassandra Clare

“People always seemed to be in awe of the infliction of pain.”

— Ethan Cross

“The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.”

— Bryant McGill

“Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.”

— Anna Hamilton

“Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.”

— Art Berg

“All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the…

— V.C. Andrews

“One does not want to tear oneself away from this anguish.”

— Nadezhka von Meck

“If you were able to capture the pain into words, it would be ones you've never heard before. They don't have words for that.”

— Chelsea Landon

“There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?”

— Ayn Rand

“The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“And if you’re referring to your anguish, it’s just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details…

— Alice Notley