Quotes About Pain

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All during our apprehensions, we lived through it in advance, and when it happens these past torments are added to the present ones, and together they form a mass whose weight is intolerable.

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

Les héros homériques vivaient et mouraient; les snobs de l'Occident discutaient du plaisir et de la douler.

The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it.

Everything which borders on torment wakens the psychologist in each of us

Ofiara muzyczna, Sztuka fugi, Wariacje Goldbergowskie: w muzyce, tak jak w filozofii i we wszystkim, lubiÄ™ to, co sprawia ból przez uporczywo??, nawracanie, przez nieskoÅ"czony powrót, który dotyka najdalszych gÅ'Ä™bi bytu i wywoÅ'uje ledwo mo?liwÄ… do zniesienia przyjemno??.

If I have been able to hold out till now, it is because each blow, which seemed intolerable at the time, was followed by a second which was worse

one can merely disguise one's wounds

Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me

birth, source of every infirmity, every disaster.

Les douleurs sont incompatibles avec le soleil, qui les expose néanmoins à la lumière. Tout ce que nous avons caché dans nos nuits, nos possibilités de soupirs et nos soupirs effectifs, tout cela se répand dans son spectre, ses rayons se brisent, et il gît, aveuglé" par notre douleur, dans le tombeau de sa propre lumière.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal.

To suffer is the supreme modality of taking the world seriously.

Gli uomini soffrono dell'avvenire, si precipitano nella vita, fuggono nel tempo, cercano. E niente mi fa più male dei loro occhi indagatori, vani, e tuttavia privi di vanità.

Nu am dureri de cap, ci mai r?u: o ap?sare permanent? pe creier, o not? funebr? în spirit.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Geschwätz ist jede Konversation mit einem, der nicht gelitten hat.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it's the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.

Trópico se vistió de luto un día, fango tomó color de sangre seca, niebla en neblina erré, la mente hueca, gris en el corazón, alma vacía

Qué crimen o qué dolor es un beso cuando es sólo un beso!