Quotes About Pain

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

They that die by famine die by inches.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters--pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do; on the one hand the standard of right and wrong; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.

Basta. Non mi parlare più. Mi fai piangere. Le tue bellissime parole servono solo, riescono solo a farmi piangere. Sei cattivo. Mi parli così, questi argomenti li cerchi e li sviluppi solo per vedermi piangere. No, non sei cattivo. Ma sei triste. Peggio che triste, sei tetro. Almeno piangessi anche tu. Sei triste e brutto. E io non voglio diventare triste, come te. Io sono bella e allegra. Lo ero.

When I'm alone with only dreams of you that won't come true what'll I do?

How is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

The death of a child, the most sorrowful of all the mysteries.

I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.

Anger Works Anger can be extremely rewarding in the short term. It can distract you from pain and threatening feelings. You may use anger to provoke fear and anxiety in others. Such anger makes others feel threatened, allowing you to gain control. But regularly directing anger at someone is likely to make him or her even less supportive. Ultimately, that person will withdraw completely- leaving you feeling even more isolated.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

my back has started acting up, probably due to a weakening of the muscles along the spine,

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.

in that moment all the painful history of four hundred years of slavery entered my body in a way it hadn't before and I broke down and sobbed, Dominique, I sobbed and realized more than ever that the white man has a lot to answer for

then her mother died, devoured from the inside by the ruthless, ravenous, carnivorous disease that started off with one organ before moving on to destroy the others