Quotes About Pain

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

This is a tragic world we live in.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.