Quotes About Pain

Self-pity is the mother of misery, bearing first a small pain, then eventually growing to consume all the joy we could have experienced. Reject self-pity and choose joy as quickly as possible.

God's plans are perfect, but they often look perplexing and involve pain.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

He threw his head back and let his disbelief and fury break free. The sound was pain-filled and fearsome, the cry of a wounded beast. It reverberated through the trees, bouncing off the walls of the valley, the echoes doubling back into one agonized, unbroken roar.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

The bottom line is that if you are in hell, the only way out is to go through a period of sustained misery. Misery is, of course, much better than hell, but it is painful nonetheless. By refusing to accept the misery that it takes to climb out of hell, you end up falling back into hell repeatedly, only to have to start over and over again.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

He said that the greatest pains or pleasures of this world are not to be compared with what he had experienced of both kinds in the spiritual life. He worried about nothing and feared nothing. His only desire is not to offend God. He did not beat himself up when he sinned. He said, "When I fail in my duty to God, I immediately acknowledge it, saying, 'All I do is sin, and I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself.

The pain that comes with regret should be mandatory, not something to be shooed away like an annoying pet. When we make bad choices and fail ourselves or hurt the people we love, we should feel pain. That pain can be motivating and in the best sense, triggering—a reminder that maybe we messed up but we can do better. It's one of the most powerful feelings guiding us to change.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

You know, talking to you is as satisfying as smashing my fingers with a hammer.

Mi dolor es un fallo que no puedo permitirme. La prueba irrefutable de una inteligencia débil

Quiero domar el dolor como si fuera un animal salvaje.

Todo falso: el dolor nunca fue un amigo que se extralimita en su franqueza; siempre fue un torturador hijo de puta.

Emily always turned to language to soothe or lessen her distress. The letters could have served as a reminder of the pain she had experienced, but survived. Whatever purpose she had in writing remained a secret known only to her. She never shied away from looking anguish in the eye or contemplating its aftermath. To do so was an act of dominion over misery and resistance to inertia.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

People like us… we all have places that don't heal entirely. We just get used to the occasional stab of pain and keep going.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer.

Misery is a communicable disease.