Quotes About Pain

Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Oh my God, I think I purchased some Jimmy Choos, and they hurt like crazy. That's when I realized that fashion truly isn't about comfort; it's about looking good.

Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

People die and people cry people want me dead.