Agonizing experience Quotes

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

Pain has an element of blank

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!