Quotes About Pain

I cant remember the last time I went in the ring feeling whole. The pain is something you learn to live with. Some guys don't and they don't last.

I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn't want to show them that it hurt.

I had a lot of issues in my life after my brother died in 1972, that I carried through to my adult life.

I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.

I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins.

Anybody who sees me in person will see the worst cauliflower ears I think you have ever seen.

Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.

At a certain point, you get banged up a lot.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

I'd had a rough childhood.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.