Francesca Lia Block Quotes

I've been hurt quite a few times.

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

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

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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.

The first cut is the deepest.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Some things you just don't get over.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

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.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

People play with pain all the time.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.