Pain

"Finally, his whole body burst into flames and as the pain became unbearable, he threw his arms in the air and screamed in agony. In his final moments, the words of the Nazarene echoed through his mind: 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

"Pain is a horribly wonderful gift."

"Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don’t know the seed-reason. It’s deep inside her, and it’ll take time and patience to get it out of her."

"Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy."

"Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Trauma is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction. A tornado of unimaginable awfulness that whooshes into your life - just for one key moment - and wreaks such havoc that, in just an instant, your whole world will never be the same again."

"I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it."

"I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red Soviet Yet doing it simultaneously While dropping down shed oubliettes Turned around and took truth to the head that Love is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death"

"I love you unconditionally, his mom had said, once or twice, when he was younger. That’s how parents love. I love you no matter what. People said things like that, without thinking of potential nightmare scenarios or horrific conditions, the whole world changing and love slipping away. None of them ever dreamed love would be tested, and fail."

"Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?"

"There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent."

"Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?"

"Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride."

"It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself."

"Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future."

"Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition."

"It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel."

"Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth."

"...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow..."

"this life has been a landscape of painand still,flowersbloom in it."

"It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it."