Painful Memories Quotes

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.”
― Hideaki Sorachi

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”
― Anmol Rawat, A Little Chorus of Love

“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.”
― Julie Gregory, Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

“I will kill myself soon. But until then how do l tame my pain?”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

“Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Wasn't it enough that our bodies, our limbs hurt? Why did we also have to hurt in our heart, the pain tucked so deeply in the soft tissue that we couldn't just pluck it out?”
― Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay

“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Pinch of pain gives you tear!
Repeat!
Pinch of pain gives you strength! Repeat!
A pinch of pain gives you strength to overcome the big pain.”
― Ar. Harpreet Singh

“It takes a while to believe that someone who promised to be with you forever has left you forever.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be really painful to engage with, no one wants anyone else to be exposed to their deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, but unless these issues are talked about they can never be defeated, and you will never be at peace with yourself or anyone else. You have one day got to face that shit head-on and defeat it. Believe me.”
― Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

“When someone cares for you, your pain is their pain”
― Shain Rose, Between Commitment and Betrayal

“The hardest part of losing someone isn't the goodbye—
it's waking up every day and remembering they're still gone.”
― Sean DeLaney

“Letting go of painful memories warms up the body, mind, and spirit”
― Dr.Purushothaman Kollam

“He wanted to relive the anguish of yesteryear, while I wanted to brush such painful memories aside.”
― Lisa Medved, The Engraver's Secret

“Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

“Toby’s pain, cut with his guilt and sorrow, raced in my veins as if I’d shot up with it, finally overwhelming me and knocking me out.”
― Scott Gordon, Head Fake

“We all suffer differently, and sometimes silently.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The duty of pain is to change you, either for better, or for worse.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“When pain is bottled up on the inside for too long, those who feel it tend to explode.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Your scars are like stars in the night sky. It echoes the pain from your darkest moments, and makes your strength a feat worth emulating.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Caught in the mist of misunderstanding
block the roads of happiness
trap in the forest of an
undersired darkness”
― Elaine Sapphire

“You're not here,
but the stain of memories—
my tears could never vanish.”
― Subhransu Bidyasagar

“Even time can't heal all the
wounds.
We just get better at
hiding them.”
― Wahi Noor

“Do old scars ever stop hurting?”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Those of us from Earth, we can hardly talk to each other. We're weighed down with memories of where we came from and what we left behind.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“Once I was on the bus, I crouched in a seat and shut my eyes. I felt the strangest pain. A crushing pain that hurt everywhere. I thought if I took off my heavy city shoes, those crucifying monsters, the agony would ease. I took them off, but the mysterious pain did not leave me. In a way it never has; never will.”
― Truman Capote, One Christmas

“Stop being the sole occupant in a house built of bitterness, regret, resentment, anger and pain.”
― rob liano