Quotes About Pain

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

A panic attack is interesting the way a broken leg or a kidney stone is interesting—a pain that you want to end.

Dr. W. believes, as Freud did, that anxiety could be an adaptation meant to shield the psyche from some other source of sadness or pain. I ask him why, if that's the case, the anxiety often feels much more intense than the sadness.

Horror is a lot like sex," Moore continued. "It's raw and it's primal and when it's good—when it's really good—it even hurts a little. But the good kind of pain, you know?

You accept that it happened. But you know that life burned this hole in your heart and it's not going to heal.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Lord, may it hurt so good, if growth will reveal your grace and glory in my life.

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)

Jeremiah's lament makes me thankful today for the freedom you give us to bring our unfiltered and unfettered feelings to you. If we don't bring our painful emotions to you, we will take them somewhere.

The healthiest relationships we enjoy are good gifts to be treasured, but they are only a scent and symbol of what it means to belong to you. And our most painful and disconnected relationships don't have to define us. We can grieve the loss and bring the wounds to you.

It is the way of life. We are born in others' pain; we perish in our own, and between beginning and end stands the physician. We help them into the world, we watch beside their sickbeds, we make their exits into immortality as painless as possible - at the last we stay to comfort those who remain. These are the obligations of our trade.

Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

Is there life before death? That's chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug our little destiny again.

No windfall or good fortune comes to mortals That isn't paid for in the coin of pain.

Terrible times. I managed to come through But I never healed. My whole life has been Just one long cruel parody.

Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured.

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.