Djuna Barnes Quotes

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Everybody has their pain.

Suffering does not change its face.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

May new sufferings torment your soul.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

There is no love without suffering.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

The nature of the game is pain.