Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out

Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

There is no love without suffering.

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

All of my books come from pain.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

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

Heartbreak is a real thing.

Suffering does not change its face.

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

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.