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Quotes About Pain

The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation. It's a negative reality, just like death -- a sort of heaven without the pain and terror of dying.
~ Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
~ Henry Miller
Recuerdo muy bien cómo disfrutaba con mi sufrimiento. Era como llevarse un cachorro a la cama. De vez en cuando te arañaba... y entonces sentías auténtico espanto. Por lo general, no sentías miedo: siempre podías soltarlo o cortarle la cabeza.
~ Henry Miller
Ai simÈ›ire,numai c? e greÈ™it orientat?.Inima ta funcÈ›ioneaz? spasmodic.EÈ™ti recunosc?tor celor ce îÈ›i fac inima s? sangereze;nu suferi din cauza lor,suferi ca s? poÈ›i gusta luxul de a suferi.?i înc? nici n-ai început s? suferi;suferi prin suferinÈ›a altora.
~ Henry Miller
I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock.
~ Henry Miller
In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing current of blood. The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
~ Henry Miller
These memories were beautiful, and they stung like nettles.
~ Henry Miller
Music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of anguish... He is a bright sage, a dancing sear who, with a sweep of the brush, removes the ugly scaffold to which the body of man is chained by the incontrovertible facts of life.
~ Henry Miller
Quien, por un amor demasiado grande, lo que al fin y al cabo es monstruoso, muere de sufrimiento, renace para no conocer ni amor no odio, sino para disfrutar. Y ese disfrute de la vida, por haberse adquirido de forma no natural, es un veneno que tarde o temprano corrompe el mundo entero.
~ Henry Miller
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only nourishment He knew was grief, endless in its hidden source Yet never ending hunger.
~ Herbert Mason
His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn't care. 'He's alive!' Blue said again 'He's breathing!' 'I can't see him breathing.
~ Herbie Brennan
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
~ Herman Melville
I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.
~ Herman Melville
nameless miseries of the numberless mortals
~ Herman Melville
How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where thou now standest; aye, and standing there in thy spite? In thy most solitary hours, then, dost thou not fear eavesdroppers? Hold, don't speak! And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell for ever, and without a body? Hah!
~ Herman Melville
Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life.
~ Herman Melville
Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!
~ Herman Melville
I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.
~ Herman Melville
his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.
~ Herman Melville
I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.
~ Herman Melville
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
~ Bill Walton
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
~ Tyler Hamilton