Lasting Pain Quotes

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.