Quotes About Pain

Five strange fingers from fate's hand, Each plays its part at fate's command. The fiery blaze the answer keeps. And till its time each secret sleeps. When pain is truth and truth is pain, The painted shadows live again. Five leave, but five do not return. Vain hope and pride in terror burn.

He felt a stab of agony as the sharp blade plunged into his chest, and a sickening thud as he was thrown back through the doorway, but after that he felt no pain.

Happiness, in the land of Deals, is measured on a sliding scale. What makes you happy? A long white silent car with smoked-glass windows, with a chauffeur and a stocked bar and two beautiful objects of desire in the back seat? An apartment in a nice part of town? A kinder lover? A place to stand that's out of the wind? A brief cessation of pain? It depends on what you have at the moment I ask that question, and what you don't have. Wait a little, just a little. The scale will slide again.

I don't know why hurting means getting better.

I bang my head on a faucet. "Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt?

Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. Stop all saying at the same time.

of human traffic that connected all nations into one great suffering body.

I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt.

pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down.

Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As

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People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot

Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz.

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--' 'Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.' Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain?

Scars branded the prisoner's face like lightning bolts

I imagine you're in great pain, it's to be expected with such a laceration. You will have a rather large scar, but then looks are not really important to you." Mulch sequined at Artemis through a narrowed eye. "Are you trying to be funny? Oh my God, you're not. That was actually the nicest thing you could think of to say.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:— Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!

Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

If you meet temptation, use self-control; if you meet pain, use fortitude; if you meet revulsion, use patience.