Quotes About Pain

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

With both mission and purpose and pain you're in great shape, but without both you're wandering in the desert.

You want your human adversaries to see the pain, but you do not want to hit them between the eyes with it. You soften the blow, so to speak, with nurturing.

When you begin any new negotiation or find yourself losing control of an ongoing negotiation, you return to—what? Your mission and purpose. And where is your mission and purpose set? In your adversary's world. And what is embedded deep within your adversary's world? Their pain. When in doubt, return to the pain. And always nurture, because without it, the pain may simply be too much.

You help create the vision, but you don't create the pain itself at all. The pain is just there. The doctor doesn't create your pain; she helps you see your case clearly.

the price that will be paid in any negotiation—is directly related to the clarity of the vision of pain?

many problems relate to the major categories of my system: Who are their decision makers? What's their pain? What's their budget?

My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into this world" (John 16:21).

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

Sometimes Raymond wonders what it is like to be a duck: What is it like to have a facial expression so frozen that no one, not even another duck, can tell if you are in pain? It must be safe in one way, but then sooner or later the hunters come along and say to each other:"Hey, look at those birds out there, bobbing on the pond. We can shoot them because they can't feel emotion." But that's not true, Raymond thinks. Not even a little bit.

Lost in a Roman wilderness of painAnd all the children are insane

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Life for all its gains pierces in ways that leave scars, where I've bled, I've lived

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

the cure for a toothache was to slap the other side of your face.

Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Her dread of fire was almost as strong as her fear of deep water. She wasn't so much afraid of dying as she was of pain. If they had to die, she just hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. Or for too long.

My clawed fingers lost all feeling after the first quarter-mile as I clung to anything within reach, and my right foot was numb from stomping an imaginary brake pedal.