Quotes About Pain

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.