Quotes About Pain

Pain, the idea that something that is gone forever can nonetheless remain so cruelly alive.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

In the lower orders infanticide was the preferred method of birth control, but attitudes towards this swung sharply negative under the Antonines, in contrast to the tolerance in the late republic and first century of the empire.95 Avoiding reproduction out of financial meanness, or the desire to avoid the pain and suffering of child mortality, produced a distinctive mindset in the second century AD.

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Life is a wince-a-thon.

And believe me, you don't want to be around Migraine Mom. I strongly recommend avoiding that subject.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

Untold suffering seldom is.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Ignominy has always been the younger sister of misfortune.

I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing.

Todas las noches me moría cuando oía los gritos ahogados de mamá al recibir los golpes paternos.

Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain.

The Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis of Back Pain by Julie Zimmerman,