Quotes About Pain

There is a pain you can't think your way out of. You can't talk it away.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Says Freud: We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do that without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally, from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. Morality

a mournful of stained, crooked teem,

In this way I finished the bottle, feeling comparatively little pain during the operation, although I felt a great deal when the effect of the brandy had worn off.

He had a bullet in the arm—the nineth or tenth wound of his life—which had damaged the main nerve; but he seemed to rise above it. After a lengthy and painful operation, with only local anesthetics, he found it difficult to sleep, even with morphia;

guess she used to put the horns on him quite a bit. Anyway, about three months ago, just after this war started, she gave him the bird—finally and for good. So he came to Spain to forget his broken heart in the hell and shellholes of Ávila.' After a pause he went on: 'What got me was our friend's description of their poignant parting scene. When he asked her, "Do they mean nothing to you, those nights of love

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacobís sons (Dinahís brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.í

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaohís household soon heard of it.

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

Then he begged me, ëStand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.í

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

When King David heard all this, he was furious.

And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.