Antonio Porchia Quotes

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

Stress is a form of suffering.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

What hurts us is what heals us.

I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

People need to know what I've gone through.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Everybody's darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin'. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain't goin' nowhere.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

Unhappiness was my god.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.