Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

People play with pain all the time.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

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

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

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

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.