Quotes About Pain

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

He felt now as if his entire body were recovering from frostbite, and he understood suddenly why people died in blizzards. It was not because they were cold and fell asleep. It was because it hurt too much to come back to life.

What's the burn scale?

the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water and wine taste warm in the mouth, and food is of the substance of the sand; one snarls at one's company; thoughts prick one through sleep like mosquitoes.

People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with the change.

His face twitched, as if he were in pain. He said softly, 'Don't say that. Don't you understand? The whole point is, it's all a lie. You're not a toy at all.

Nothing hurts like a hostile farewell.

The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever

C est quand notre milieu (naturel ou culturel) commence a nous faire du mal qu on s avise de son existence, et plus il nous decouvrira ses fragilites, plus nous y aurons mal. Ainsi decouvre-t-on sa langue quand, a l etranger, on ne peut plus la parler - ou qu on avait une patrie, quand on est exile.

Wisdom always chooses these black eyes and these bruises over the heartache that they say never completely goes away

Mon cœur, le couteau existent. Mon cœur parce qu'il saigne, le couteau parce qu'il taille ma chair.

Is there anything more intimate or more internal than pain?

hay acaso algo más íntimo o más interior que el dolor?

La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens

Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.

and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and shove back in her chest.

During sexual abuse, children feel and incorporate the rage, pain, shame, and sense of perversion that the perpetrator is projecting. They take these feelings into the very core of themselves, and they are badly traumatized by the emotions surrounding the assault, as well as by the assault itself.

IF WE ARE very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. But without patient endurance, even the smallest thing becomes unbearable. A lot depends on our attitude.

All of you are hurt. You're hurt because of the secrets. The secrets that have festered inside.

death doth not heal, it amputates. Those