122 Quotes About Painful-memories

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand.

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

I did not intend to cry out, but as you will see these small actions, associated in most people's minds with the ease and happiness of life, are to me still like knives in my heart to think of.

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain.

I’m walking out in the rain againPains the same as it’s always beenLungs full of smoke from my cigarette And my heart breaks with every step, But only a little bitWalking away from myself, not getting farWondering if it’s you I see in each passing car

Feeling comical but a little to magical,Twisted sardonic smile but twinkling eyes with mirth,But deep down inside you're enduring pain yet stoical,Wondering if there will be a time of rebirth...

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.

She would think about it tomorrow, but tomorrow never came when the memory had been that painful.