Quotes About Pain

Consequently, patients and their families were often reluctant to have doctors prescribe morphine, because in the popular imagination it was seen, as Richard put it, to be "a death sentence.

Opioids can deliver you, if only for a few minutes, from physical or emotional pain, from discomfort, from anxiety, from need. It is like no other human experience. "I'll die young," the comedian Lenny Bruce once said of his own addiction. "But it's like kissing God." (He did die young, naked on his bathroom floor, from a morphine overdose, at forty.)

Richard's cousin Kathe Sackler would claim that it was she who first suggested oxycodone

not everyone who developed a problem with OxyContin started out as a recreational abuser. In fact, many people who were prescribed the drug for legitimate pain conditions and took it precisely as the doctor ordered found that they, too, had become hopelessly addicted.

Richard Sackler was a key proponent of Purdue Frederick's transition into pain management.

pain specialists were validating the commercial research and development that Richard and his colleagues were doing at Purdue.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame. Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing.

I said nothing. Like a child playing find-and-catch, it was my sincere hope that if I closed my eyes and remained perfectly still, the pain wouldn´t be able to find me.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then.

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.

Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon.

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

El dicho de que «el tiempo todo lo cura» es falso. El tiempo cura la mayoría de las heridas. El resto están escondidas detrás de esa puerta.

El sueño nos ofrece un refugio del mundo y de todo su dolor.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

Those were the worst memories. Precious and perfect. Sharp as a mouthful of glass. I lay in bed, clenched into a trembling knot, unable to sleep, unable to turn my mind to other things, unable to stop myself from remembering again. And again. And again

Quizá la mayor facultad que posee nuestra mente sea la capacidad de sobrellevar el dolor.

Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.

A veces, la realidad es solo dolor, y para huir de ese dolor, la mente tiene que abandonar la realidad.