Painful Memories Quotes
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“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Freak
― 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.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― 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.”
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“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”
― A Little Chorus of Love
― 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.”
― Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
― Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
“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.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― 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.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“It takes a while to believe that someone who promised to be with you forever has left you forever.”
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“While staring at him, Laurie sighed deeply and said, "See Ethan, Love isn't always about flowers and chocolates, maybe it's about sacrifices or giving everything you're willing to offer to see your lover happy."
As she continued, she closed her eyes "Others couldn't since they weren't their lovers, but some people were able to. Since you ultimately mean nothing to those who mean the fucking world to you, it hurts to witness other people suffer while being unable to provide comfort."
Ethan immediately stood up and kneeled in front of Laurie as she cried angrily "I know! Laurie, I apologize. Because of how much you mean to me, that is why I came here today.”
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As she continued, she closed her eyes "Others couldn't since they weren't their lovers, but some people were able to. Since you ultimately mean nothing to those who mean the fucking world to you, it hurts to witness other people suffer while being unable to provide comfort."
Ethan immediately stood up and kneeled in front of Laurie as she cried angrily "I know! Laurie, I apologize. Because of how much you mean to me, that is why I came here today.”
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“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I hate the colour so much 鈥� it reminds me of this home and many other things. I avert my gaze and it lands on the wrinkled brown curtains with a tiny hole at the bottom. I wonder when was it washed last. The sofa set, the centre table, the diwan, everything needs a replacement. Even the memories.”
― As Night Falls
― As Night Falls

“Everyone has sorrows; we just don鈥檛 know them well enough to realise it. When we see others, we see their masks perfectly concealing their invariably painful past.”
― Life of a Sunset Kid
― Life of a Sunset Kid
“There are some moments that can change us forever. There are some pains that you never forget.”
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“He wanted to relive the anguish of yesteryear, while I wanted to brush such painful memories aside.”
― The Engraver's Secret
― The Engraver's Secret

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

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

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

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