Quotes About Pain

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

This long disease, my life.