Pain

"Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight"

"What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second."

"There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively."

"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."

"He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts."

"Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it's great!"—Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs, television murders, Bolivian starvation, thieves in silk, thieves in neckties, thieves in office, paper shufflers, bureaucrats, insult, rage, dismay, horror, terrified nightmares, secret death of hangovers, cancer, ulcers, strangulation, pus, old age, old age homes, canes, puffed flesh, dropped teeth, stink, tears, and goodbye. Somebody else write it, I dont know how."

"The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack"

"Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain. The whole world was fucking bleeding."

"We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain."

"Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive."

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive. It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it."

"I’m the answer to her pain. She’s my answer for the need for it."

"When he sees my pain, the old and new, he pushes me to give it to him. To give in to his need to consume all of it and make it his."

"A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart."

"Each tear longs to kiss sorrow"

"Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit."

"I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily."

"All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system."

"But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain."