Quotes About Pain

I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

My back is permanently messed up.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

I beat many good fighters and many who were better than me and the reason I beat them was because I was persistent, I was willing to go through those pain barriers.

Où sont cachés les stigmates du pire quand la vie courante nous contraint chaque jour à renaître à la banalité écoeurante et splendide ?

Vegheaz? umbr?-a ??rnii,umbr? ca de iad, deschi?i tu ochi-mi legi cu lan? de fier...?i cad în pat p?truns de mii de suli?i în m?nunchi... ?i ca s?-mi pot goni durerea- vino,moarte... Ha,moarte,port la ??rmul viselor de?arte, îngroap?-m suferin?a rogu-te-n genunchi...

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT Stomach-ache can be a curse; heart-ache may be even worse; so thank Heaven on your knees if you've got but one of these.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Families are also about offering endless possibilities for pain.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

When your own painful experiences inspire you to the extent that you become truly determined to break free of suffering, that is what the Buddha taught as the attitude of "renunciation.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at your thrall.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I have been through so much, I wanted to say, but the words were tangled in my throat.