Ann Aguirre Quotes

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

The worst pain in the world is shame.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.