Quotes About Pain

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! There's not a sob in my chest. Dry hearted Peer Gynt I pare away, no hero, merely a cook.

The avoidance of pain - physical or psychic - is a dangerous mechanism, which can cause us to lose touch not just with our painful sensations but with ourselves.

The woman who cherished her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. I love the scar-tissue she handed on to me, but I want to go on from here with you fighting the temptation to make a career of pain.

You ask me how I'm going to live the rest of my life Well, nothing is predictable with pain Did the old poets write of this? —in its odd spaces, free, many have sung and battled— But I'm already living the rest of my life not under conditions of my choosing wired into pain rider on the slow train

I ache, brilliantly.

Heartbreak can be so pathetic.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward and tell somebody that they were in pain and that they needed help.

I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have been oppressed, and we're feeling, I think, collective pain from these energies being so out of balance.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens.

When people say: 'What's your biggest achievement?' Giving birth. Forget the rest of it.

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.