Marina Oswald Quotes

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

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.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart