As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
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Related The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you... CORALLIE BUCHANAN There are parts of a woman’s heart that are reserved for certain types of love. Experiencing the l... CORALLIE BUCHANAN The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it m... DANIEL BLACK The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing. VIRONIKA TUGALEVA The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of ... JOHN BERGER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch... ELIZABETH WURTZEL There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe... MILAN KUNDERA There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe... MILAN KUNDERA for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on... MILAN KUNDERA There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on... MILAN KUNDERA Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let your... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. ARUNDHATI ROY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public acco... NANCY GIBBS That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. HENRY WARD BEECHER Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per... SAM BROWNBACK There must be pain before healing. So in that way, the music is revolutionary, because it tells the ... DAMIAN MARLEY No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balan... G. K. CHESTERTON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. MAILE MELOY What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and ... LADY GAGA The ruthless, in the end, are the ones that will succeed. Those not held down by moral, by law,... GENERAL GRIEVOUS Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing... EDITH WHARTON It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain... J.A. REDMERSKI Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of t... KAHLIL GIBRAN Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something... C. JOYBELL C. If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ... ABERJHANI To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in it... KATE CHOPIN The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its... KATE CHOPIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. AMIT RAY Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become e... SHARON E. RAINEY My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. GOTTFRIED BENN endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better. JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big,... DEYTH BANGER There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the he... STEFAN ZWEIG As long as we don’t buckle under the weight of the pain and its longevity, when the pain does subs... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Pain Is Caused By Pleasure SULLY ERNA And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and ... JAMES AGEE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON As a mother, it is hard when you see your child in so much pain. I want to hold him in my arms, but ... ELAINE THOMAS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? I... CHELSEA HANDLER Darkness is nothing but an opportunity to spread light JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. EPICTETUS For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. GEORGE ELIOT Pain may create Misery, Pain may give you Sorrow. It may trouble you Today, but will be gone Tomorro... RVM The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by t... THOMAS HARDY We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa... THOMAS LIGOTTI How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much fo... RICHELLE MEAD Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri RICHELLE MEAD Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me RICHELLE MEAD Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away ... RICHELLE MEAD That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Violence is a path to destruction; it is a painkiller that kills its user as it kills the pain. /USER/ARCHDUKE+CHARLES/MY_QUOTES/1 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that... R. D. LAING Sometimes our pain drives us into discovering our destiny and who we truly are SOTONYE ANGA Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can r... DAN SIMMONS There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib... JOHN O'DONOHUE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p... ABRAHAM COWLEY When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry! STEPHEN RICHARDS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the W... HELEN KELLER Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear... KAHLIL GIBRAN But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER Pain is inevitable in life; you can’t avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature with... DEBASISH MRIDHA What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But ... BROOKE BURGESS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but doe... SAINT IGNATIUS I think its kind of going to be a pain. It's not going to be worth it for half the people on campus. GEORGE KENNEDY Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. FRANCIS PICABIA Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tende... PAULA COLE Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its en... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. I feel pain but not that much pain, ... It was right under the nail and right in the middle. That's ... SAMMY SOSA Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. DEREK JARMAN I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES BALDWIN Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES LONG In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS [Peterson wasn't feeling so hot about his predicament, which worsened in the second half of last Sun... WILL PETERSON I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had a... MARCEL PROUST
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