Top 100 Quotes About Emotional Pain

#1. I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#2. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

Gary Zukav

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#3. I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

Karen Salmansohn

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#4. Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

Mark Epstein

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#5. Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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#6. I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

Dash Mihok

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#7. When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Romany Malco

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#8. We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair
when our words are empty.

Jill Bialosky

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#9. All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

Karen Salmansohn

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#10. I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

Mpho Koaho

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#11. your body doesn't know the difference between physical pain and emotional pain. That's why grief, if left unchecked, can eventually kill you.

Mary Calmes

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#12. Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.

Aleks Paunovic

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#13. A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Michael R. French

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#14. Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.

Andrew Solomon

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#15. As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

Eckhart Tolle

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#16. Not that I'm the kind of person who would actually inflict emotional pain on another human being out of a selfish, twisted need for revenge.
I just like to think about it.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

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#17. I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

Jacob Vargas

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#18. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Hal Elrod

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#19. The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Joel Dicker

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#20. If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Phillip C. McGraw

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#21. Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.

Danielle Cormack

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#22. How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again?
You just do it...Because you have no choice.

Linda Howard

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#23. They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.

Gillibran Brown

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#24. Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

Jed Diamond

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#25. EMOTIONAL PAIN is an inevitable reality of life..while it gives discomfort, it is also a dynamic force to 'awareness'. Pain is a very human way of 'demanding change'.Whenever you feel pain about something, you need to CHANGE something! It is that simple...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

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#26. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Martha Beck

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#27. If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Alan Cohen

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#28. It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

India.Arie

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#29. There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.

Marianne Williamson

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#30. We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155

John Kuypers

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#31. Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

Roy Bennett

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#32. In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

Lisa Loeb

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#33. But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain - the pain that registers inside - the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.

Stephen Mansfield

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#34. I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain!

Sam Kinison

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#35. Forgiveness does not mean that we will cease to hurt. The wounds are deep, and we may hurt for a very long time. Just because we continue to experience emotional pain does not mean that we failed to forgive.

Richard Foster

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#36. How does immorality slip into a person's life who is experiencing great emotional pain? It does so in the form of relief. The adversary disguises it to look good and justified in the early stages. By the time it is seen as bad medicine, it is well into the system of the patient.

Lois Mowday Rabey

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#37. Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

Gary Zukav

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#38. Behind his eyes was emotional pain because I had hurt him. I was in pain because he had crossed me. "Boss,

Jessica N. Watkins

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#39. Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical.

Lois Mowday Rabey

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#40. I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Paulo Coelho

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#41. I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Naturi Naughton

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#42. Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

Leonard Mlodinow

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#43. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

Regina Taylor

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#44. I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

Patricia Velasquez

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#45. When a person is in emotional pain, it's hard to be rational and to think of a good solution. Nevertheless, many of the coping strategies used by people with overwhelming emotions only serve to make their problems worse.

Matthew McKay

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#46. People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you.

Robert Duff

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#47. Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time - of all time.

Marc Ian Barasch

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#48. Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it - or try to, anyway - and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

Jennifer Lopez

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#49. The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

Heather Brewer

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#50. When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

Alex Ebert

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#51. I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Tricia Helfer

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#52. Spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

John Geddes

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#53. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.

Lisa Firestone

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#54. In the middle of deep emotional pain, immorality can be rationalized and appear justified because our vision is blurred. We are viewing through the eyes of one focused on relief, not on the Lord.

Lois Mowday Rabey

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#55. Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.

Sharon E. Rainey

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#56. God is not exempt from emotional pain ... One the contrary, God's pain is as infinite as His love.

Terryl L. Givens

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#57. Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

Brad Willis

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#58. Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.

Oliver Markus

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#59. I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.

Matt Sorum

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#60. I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

Richard Brancatisano

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#61. If someone really listens, acknowledges my emotional pain, and gives me the opportunity to talk more about it, I then "begin to feel less upset.

Adele Faber

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#62. When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.

David D. Burns

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#63. My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good.

Will Smith

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#64. Shouldn't you be with your pack?' she whispered without looking at him.
'Actually' he said leaning in close. So close his shoulder brushed against hers. Pain, emotional pain from just that light touch went right to her heart.' I'm exatly where I belong' Lucas whispered.

C.C. Hunter

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#65. I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

Regina Taylor

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#66. Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.

Caroline Abbott

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#67. Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

Vironika Tugaleva

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#68. When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways.

Amanda Schull

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#69. Feeling stupid is no fun. But being willing to be stupid - in other words, being willing to risk the emotional pain of making mistakes - is absolutely essential, because reaching, failing, and reaching again is the way your brain grows and forms new connections.

Daniel Coyle

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#70. I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

Christina Perri

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#71. To see someone you love in so much pain - especially emotional pain that can't be remedied - was the worst form of torture.

Laura Kreitzer

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#72. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Wendy Hoffman

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#73. Anytime a broken heart is suffered, and there is a crushing pain inside the chest, this is a physical manifestation of the emotional experience as embodied by the anahata (heart) chakra.

Alanna Kaivalya

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#74. With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

Laura Linney

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#75. May the crushed spirit revived.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#76. Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Steven Franssen

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#77. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.

Brandon M. Herbert

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#78. In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Julia Jones

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#79. Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.

Todd Newton

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#80. Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.
She felt no pain.
She saw no light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die.

Michael Grant

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#81. Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself and your emotions beyond that level. Pain will not go away, but you find that it is not hurting you that much.

Debasish Mridha

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#82. Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#83. The words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche ...

John Geddes

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#84. You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

Jessica Sorensen

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#85. Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Brittany Maynard

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#86. It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#87. Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

Robert Goolrick

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#88. I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.

Michael Jackson

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#89. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

Carla H. Krueger

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#90. Forgive and be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#91. You see, Dr. Sherrington,' the devil said, 'we are more alike than you think.' He got up again on all fours looking in the direction of the voice. It was time to face the devil.

Lawren Leo

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#92. The secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

John Geddes

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#93. The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn't fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.
I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he'd stop staring at me like that.

Alex Rosa

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#94. Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.

Miya Yamanouchi

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#95. Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Marlene Caroselli

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#96. Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Julie Walters

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#97. Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Guy Finley

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#98. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...

Muse

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#99. May the broken hearted be healed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#100. He wanted to keep things in, and all I wanted to do was get out.

Kristin Halbrook

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