Sharing Pain Quotes

#1. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

Robin Hobb

#2. She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.

Octavia E. Butler

#3. God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

Keith Ablow

#4. Canetti, and Borges, too, I think - two very different men - said that just as the sea was the symbol or mirror of the English, the forest was the metaphor the Germans inhabited.

Bola

#5. In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

George Santayana

#6. If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-
And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

Alice Hoffman

#9. What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

Robert Breault

#10. Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

John Milton

#11. For your every tear, know that I'll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I'll never disappear.

Anthony Liccione

#12. The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in war!

Self

#13. Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Shinzen Young

#14. I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright.

Tom Rob Smith

#15. She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she could give this love, and that, she knew, was good; for that is what redeems us, that is what makes our pain and sorrow bearable - this giving of love to others, this sharing of the heart.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Mary Baker Eddy

#17. Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Isabel Allende

#18. Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

Carly Simon

#19. I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.

Shannon Celebi

#20. The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.
They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.

Tamyara Brown

#21. We all wish to protect our loved ones from pain. But part of loving is sharing....Sharing hopes and fears, pain and loss, bodies and minds. Why else love?

Elizabeth Vaughan

#22. Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.

Lisa Gardner

#23. Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

Seekerohan

#24. It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Robin Hobb

#25. The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

David Foster Wallace

#26. I just didn't spend enough time with my job.

Dallin H. Oaks

#27. I saw the hurt on your face when you escaped the party with Evelyn. And each smile, each frown, each laugh, and each flash of pain in your eyes were like wounds to me, Nikki, because I wasn't the one sharing them with you.

J. Kenner

#28. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#29. When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Christopher Ricks

#30. The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Cesare Pavese

#31. Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

Brian Froud

#32. Pain does not indicate the absence of God. Pain invites us into communion with Jesus and greater dependence on him, as we yearn for his coming while sharing in his sufferings

Anonymous

#33. I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too? - Emerson

Liza M. Wiemer

#34. I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Trevor Donovan

#35. The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.

Neal Shusterman

#36. A mountain walked or stumbled.

H.P. Lovecraft

#37. The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

Pope John Paul II

#38. Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.

Adam Berlin

#39. I had also never realized before that I loved him, but I did. And his pain was my pain, and it hurt, but it also felt good in a strange way, knowing that we could share in it together.

Emma Mills

#40. If you don't feel the pain with others, you wont know the meaning of sharing happiness ...

Hussein S. Hariri