Quotes About Pain

I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.

I got my teeth kicked in for a good 25 years.

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.

If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Although the possibility of emotional trauma is ever-present, so too is the possibility of forming bonds of deep emotional attunement within which devastating emotional pain can be held, rendered more tolerable, and, hopefully, eventually integrated.

He had beaten her savagely after Gaunt's first visit, and the bruises had not yet faded. Her cheek was purplish in colour, and her  left eye was still slightly swollen. She did not mind, however. 'You know I only do it because I love you, don't you baby?' he had said afterwards. 'I just can't control myself; I love you so bad.

Amber interrupted him. 'But you'll still hurt me afterwards, won't you?' she asked hopefully.

It isn't going to be better, Maggie. It's going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God's way of helping us wash away the pain. So don't you ever apologize for crying; it's a reminder to us all that we're human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that's a beautiful thing.

with a napkin. "Does it ever get better?" Celia set down her wine and put out a hand, taking Maggie's. "You know I'd be lying if I said it did, right?" Maggie nodded. "I know." "In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them." Maggie started to cry. Celia got up and

Tracy knew that some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

Looking into your child's eyes, knowing you would never again see in them the glint of life, was the harshest kind of reality, and there wasn't a faith in the world that could ease that pain.

crushing headache.

Researchers also trace the dramatic increase in addiction to a shift in health-care philosophy that started to emphasize treating a patient's pain rather than treating the underlying ailments. That led to an increase in opioid use.