Quotes About Pain

Plott's every touch, whether he was beating her or caressing her, was a form of brutalizing manipulation.

You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember.

Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of "having" to do something is similar to the anger they felt at "having" to put up with the abuse.

They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.

Pain is full of paradoxes. Its most self-evident characteristic is that it hurts–that's what it is there for, after all–but sometimes pain feels slightly wonderful: when your muscles ache after a long run, say, or when you slide into a bath that is at once unbearably hot but also, somehow, deliciously not.

the adoption of a narrower pelvis to accommodate our new gait brought a huge amount of pain and danger to women in childbirth. Until recent times, no other animal on Earth was more likely to die in childbirth than a human, and perhaps none even now suffers as much.

Working quickly was the trick of it. When Samuel Pepys underwent a lithotomy—the removal of a kidney stone—in 1658, the surgeon took just fifty seconds to get in and find and extract a stone about the size of a tennis ball. (That is, a seventeenth-century tennis ball, which was rather smaller than a modern one, but still a sphere of considerable dimension.)

Above all, the adoption of a narrower pelvis to accommodate our new gait brought a huge amount of pain and danger to women in childbirth. Until recent times, no other animal on Earth was more likely to die in childbirth than a human, and perhaps none even now suffers as much. —

What it comes down to really is cancer is, appallingly, your own body doing its best to kill you. It is suicide without permission.

but I had reached the point where aches and blisters were so central a feature of my existence that I ceased to notice them.

I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.

If surgeons know they are going to amputate a limb, they now often numb the nerves in the affected limb over a period of days beforehand to prepare the brain for the oncoming loss of feeling. The practice has been found to greatly reduce phantom limb pain.

Guinea worms grow up to a meter long inside the bodies of their victims, then escape by burrowing out of their skin. The only treatment, even now, is to speed the process of exit by winding the worms onto a stick as they emerge.

I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.

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What makes Halsted's achievements all the more remarkable is that for much of his career he was a drug addict. While investigating methods for providing pain

I have a gigantic pain in my ass," I say. "Can you look and see if the Speaker of the House is up there?

Deep friendships are forged in the fire of pain. If

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.

Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

And if it were true, we do not think all philosophy is worth one hour of pain.