Quotes About Pain

THEY DO NOT WANT to hear what their children suffer. They've made the telling of the suffering itself taboo.

Can't you see I'm already half dead.

He never ast me nothing bout myself. He clam on top of me and fuck and fuck, even when my head bandaged. Nobody ever love me, I say.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

Privilege is being able to keep a prescribed timetable without fear of paying the rent, being in pain or becoming sick, losing health care, and taking care of your family and yourself.

Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation. A what? Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.

And woe betide the person with the 'double abnormality' of a false self and 'a fine intellect' that they find they can use to escape their pain. 'The world may observe academic success of a high degree, and may find it hard to believe in the very real distress of the individual concerned, who feels 'phoney' the more he or she is successful. [as quoted by Winnicott]

Dicen que el dolor adopta muchas formas, incluyendo la ausencia del dolor.

Exclamation marks kept stabbing out into the air after the words that I didn't want to let out. Stab and stab and stab, words and more hurtful words pushing against each other inside me, dying to get out.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

America why are your libraries full of tears?

Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm

who were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality. . .

Realization hit her, but she didn't want to believe. Didn't want to be hurt.

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.

Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

I hope you'll never know how sadness can twist your heart, and make you a stranger to yourself.

He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.

Like a plant that has struck its root into some poisonous mineral, my poor uncle was dying slowly upward.

Every moment of every day, she had fought to keep his face out of her mind, and his voice out of her head, had fought not to hear him say, Just relax, luv. It's all right.

Aunt Fran lowered her voice. Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain. Fran, talk plain, will you? I'm talking about derangement. Don't be silly! She wispered. And deviant behaviours.