“Sometimes I prop open a picture of you
To elicit the love that is now torture
For even in billion parts torture, one part still drips with infinite love”
Source: Oblivion's Yelp
“It was like when you burn yourself on a hotplate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“She wanted to laugh at how similar Arthur and Mordred were. They made promises, but really they were both asking her to wait until the guilt faded and the pain lessened and she could live with what she was. She knew that was exactly what would happen, and it terrified her.”
Source: The Excalibur Curse
“A painting of Jesus hanging on the cross in agony can emit the energies of peace and reverence generated by a phenomenon known as the “psychic feeding of the masses.” The emotions and thoughts from two billion Christians become absorbed into the image of an agonizing Jesus, then radiate from it.
But the same art piece can also emit energies of sadness, agony, depression, grief, horrific pain, and death.”
Source: The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know
“But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it.”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo
“It's a lot for anyone to realize that we go on, even when our hearts stop beating. That the pain of life can still follow us even through death.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“Why is pain the emotion we so easily make our home? It’s like we sign up for the thirty-year mortgage on pain, but only do short-term leases or annual time-shares on pleasure.”
Source: How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
“Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern.”
Source: Kerri's War
“Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.”