Quotes About Suffering

I wondered why I was acting so calm. I wondered why I didn't writhe against being inside my own body. If I could rip off my skin, I'd leave it in a bloody, shapeless heap on the floor beside the toilet, like so much dirty laundry. I'd beat my head against the wall until there was nothing left of my face, if it would get me outside of myself.

in the management of pain I can forget everything

To ACCEPT something and suffer is to become a victim. To accept that something is AS IT IS and then let it go or say no is to be ENLIGHTENED.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

Stories of the beleaguered Saints and of their suffering and death will be repeated again and again...Stories of their rescue need to be repeated again and again. They speak of the very essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But there are hours when, from the heavens unfolding, Come down the angels with the glad release; And we look upward, to behold in glory Our suffering loved ones borne away to peace.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

[S]ometimes, for an artist chronic pain can be a gift.

A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.

I've dropped my Brain – My Soul is numb – The Veins that used to run Stop palsied – 'tis Paralysis Done perfecter in stone...

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

I wake up tired I stay up tired I go to bed tired. I wake up in pain I stay up in pain I go to bed in pain. I wake up with hope I stay up with hope I go to bed with hope.

Fibromyalgia is a pain in the neck — and my shoulders, head, elbows, knees, back, hips, feet... sometimes even my hair hurts.

Chronic pain sufferers tend to minimize their pain to try to seem as normal as possible. We don't want to be perceived as complainers so we keep much of our pain experiences to ourselves.

Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.

Philosophy is a first rate thing to have, but you can't alleviate the gout with it, unless the gout happens to be on some other fellow.

The gout is to the stomach, what rheumatism is to the heart.

I've heard that having gout toe-tally sucks!

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

When the head aches, all the body is the worse.

Heartbreak wanders throughout the body — it's a lack of oxygen to the soul, a chain dragging from the mind, a poisoning of the blood, a sorrowful symphony drowning out all else.