Painful Past Quotes

“Pain results from a judgement you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement and the pain disappears.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

“I knew that the pain I felt now was here to stay. In many forms. Through many nights.”
― Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core

“There’s only one way to find peace with a painful past and that is through a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. He alone, through His Spirit, can place a healing balm on our deep wounds. The Bible says: “You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there!” (Jeremiah 6:14 TLB)
We (Beth and Sherrie) have found that in the places that hurt the most, God brings a promise from the Bible to our memory at just the right time. We have experienced comfort and growth through our growing relationship with Jesus and how we long for the same growth for you!”
― Beth Willis Miller, Under His Wings...healing truth for adoptees of all ages

“Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.
The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after.”
― Nikki Rowe

“A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every new post from an old friend serves as a painful reminder: This is their life now, without you. This is their group of best friends, their boyfriend they didn’t tell you about; this is them moving on completely. This is proof that when they said they’ll remember you, stay in touch with you, they were lying.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Parallel to tenderness and cruelty, the cataracts of pleasure and pain are interrelated. Painful and pleasurable sensations instruct us of our physical boundaries. The collective scorecard of physical pain and pleasurable sensations define the evolving self. Our internal clockworks comprised of remembrances of times past, both painful and pleasurable, provide each of us with a telling emotional autobiography. What we primarily recall – pain or pleasure – is revelatory. How we act with kindness and tenderheartedly, or hardheartedly and cruelly is equally telling.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We are bound
to memories,
to a past,
even to those full
of all that is aghast,
and yet, we must
conjure up
enough strength
to live beside
our ghosts,
unafraid."

- Barbara Garay, "Beneath the Surface: A book of poems.”
― Barbara Garay, Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems

“Maang-ikwe told me one night how I had sprung from a place of desire, anger, and fear. But my mother also told me, “It does not matter how we begin. It matters how we end.” She pointed out, “Pain brings a richer harvest than contentment.”

I think she was right. For as I look around at the people present, I am thankful for the harvest of lives which came birthed from painful places.”
― Jenny Knipfer, Harvest Moon

“Yes, Chevalier, you are young, your speeches illustrate it; you are wanting in experience; the day will come, and I await it, when you will be seasoned; then, my dear, you will no longer speak so well of mankind, for you will have made its acquaintance. ‘Twas men's ingratitude dried out my heart, their perfidy which destroyed in me those baleful virtues for which, perhaps, like you, I was also born.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Her wish was to never feel an emotion of love again
She wished her heart to turn into stone
She wished her tears to turn into sand
She wished her emotions to be dead and buried
For the pain of loving someone was always too much
The anxiety, the endless wanting of him close to her, the pain of her always giving 150% only to get very little in return
That's is why she prays for a heart of stone...”
― Kabashe Pillay

“I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.”
― Maureen Brady, Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse

“Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.”
― Sapan Saxena, Unns: The Captivation

“Recalling painful events can be hard, but in order to move forward you must reflect on the hurt, accept that it happened, make no excuses for the behavior or the damage caused, forgive yourself and others involved, break the cycle, stay in faith and find a way to rebuild your broken spirit.”
― Germany Kent

“Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.”
― Linda Alfiori

“Whoosh. Slap. The scream tore from Jillian’s chest as the flogger snaked across her back. She tensed and waited, but nothing else happened. “Why did you scream?” She didn’t answer immediately. Although the lash stung, it hadn’t actually hurt. “Because I was afraid,” she admitted. “Afraid of what?” “Of pain, I guess.” “How many times have you been assaulted on the job when you were a police officer?” “Too many times to count,” Jillian thought back. The last time, she was punched in the face so hard her vision was blurred for a week. “Were you afraid then?” “No. I was mad as hell.” There was an approving smile in AJ’s voice when she said, “Exactly. You aren’t acoward, Jillian. You are not afraid of pain, you are afraid of the past. Take your power back.”
― Kat Evans, The Domme Tamer

“Sometimes the past can be painful and full of terrible things. However it affected you, the important thing is that you're here now. Focus on healing and your future, because you can definitely have and deserve a good one, just as much as anyone else.
I know it's easier said than done, but I like to remind people that they are worthy and can recover from things such as trauma, even if it's a difficult, long process.”
― Brien Blatt

“Every person has a tender spot, where he or she feels pain most exquisitely.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

“Her history had taught her that the company of others could only bring pain and rejection, and this lesson had isolated her from the world.”
― Cathy Glass, Damaged

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