Quotes About Pain

Because if you go against your heart and your intuition, it reaches you eventually. Then you have to face it, and usually everyone suffers. So it's better to be truthful, and maybe cause a little pain in the beginning. But to know what your truth is and where you should be is always the best.

Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

cri de coeur

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.

They see an unremittingly sad film, and they think it's depressing, whereas we're fucking enthralled, because the catharsis for us is in witnessing great art, seeing the undiluted truth, in the shared recognition that life is pain.

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.

Opiates are a response to pain. Physical pain, emotional pain, economic pain. He's looking at all three. The Heroin Trifecta.

Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

It gets in your blood, like you got salt water running through you. The fishermen Danny knows love the sea and hate it, say it's like a cruel woman who hurts you over and over again but you keep going back to her anyway.

a scientific experiment to test whether new rules of physics could spark fascinating life forms whose creativity and pleasure was worth the pain they suffered.

Death of a part is agony - from "The Red Branch

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.