1. 26 October 2009
    “The pain cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

    pain

  2. 19 October 2009
    “I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can’t be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

    pain suffering

  3. 19 September 2009
    “I am feeling the need to do some drinking. Actually, I’m feeling the need to do some crying, but my tear ducts seem to be too proud, so I am going to do some drinking instead.”
    Kate Walsh, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv tears alcohol pain

  4. 01 August 2009
    “In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional…What a special case I was.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

    book pain identity

  5. 30 May 2009
    “I mean, if life’s so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves? What’s up with the need to hit the self-destruct button?”
    Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv pain

  6. 23 April 2009
    “It doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe thats the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap…maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.”
    Justin Chambers, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv suffering pain growth imperfection pain

  7. 20 April 2009
    “He had taken the most violent, if the weakest, method to shield himself from the stabs of memory, and while it was not a course he would have prescribed for others, he found in the end that it had done its business: he was over the first flush of pain.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

    book memory pain

  8. 10 March 2009
    “It’s not hard. It’s painful but it’s not hard. You know what to do already. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be in this much pain.”
    Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy 

    tv pain decision

  9. 04 March 2009
    “I know it hurts. That’s life. If nothing else, It’s life. It’s real, and sometimes it fuckin’ hurts, but it’s sort of all we have.”
    Natalie Portman, Garden State

    movie life pain suffering

  10. 09 January 2009
    “…and strangely even that was painful, like the space left by an aching tooth after it was drawn; she had loved him so many years that now when she could look on him without desire, she felt hollow inside.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (via robot-heart)

    pain love hurts