Kristin Hannah Quotes

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

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

What hurts us is what heals us.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

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

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

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.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

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

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

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

Suffering does not change its face.

I'm from a city where the tears never end and the pain never stops.

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

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

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

These precious things, let them bleed.