Emotional Pain Quotes

"I do not want the night to come because I want distance between us." "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "It's not the same, though, 'cause it's hard to let you go " "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise" "I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it" "What wasted unconditional love on somebody who doesn't believe in the stuff" "Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable" "It hurt because it mattered" "Gave my best to you, nothing happened" "The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain" "Not why the addiction but why the pain" "Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain" "We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions" "Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt" "The very same brain centers that interpret and process emotional pain are the ones that interpret and process physical pain" "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." "The pain of being human is that we can’t accept our own greatness" "The loneliest moment in life is when you are watching your whole world fall apart."