Veronica Roth Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Pain, Broken

• I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Watches, Absence

• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Mean, Weight

• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Pain

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

• People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

• Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Practice, Worry

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Pain, Betrayal

• Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Sometimes, Greater Good

• Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Powerful

• I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Pain, Father

• All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Son, Empty Life

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