Quotes About Pain

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

Prayer Lord, I have spent much of my life running from pain and loss, medicating my pain and quickly moving on to the next project––the new urgent demand. I ask for the grace to embrace all of life—the joys and the sorrows, the deaths and the births, the old and the new. In Jesus' name, amen.

Er de uelskedes sår nu lægt for altid? Hvordan skulle de være det, da den tidlige kærlighedsmangels traumatiske spor aldrig kan udviskes helt, og følelsen af fremmedhed desuden er menneskets grundbefindende! De uelskedes sår vil altid springe op på ny ved livets kritiske tidspunkter. Men vi kender retningen: Vi må igen slippe en afhængighed fri for at give plads for kærligheden. De uelskedes sår er det skød, vi fødes af mange gange.

In Germany, it seems, time doesn't heal wounds; it kills the sensation of pain.

Sembra che in Germania il tempo non guarisca le ferite, ma uccida il dolore.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

His pain. His own. He made it.

Look ... to go through life and call it yours -- your life -- you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'...

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Solange man leidet, lebt man doch wenigstens. Ich fürchte mich nicht vor dem Sterben. Ich habe Angst vor dem Tod - einfach, weil dann alles zu Ende ist.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...

nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt

Pain demands to be felt.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.