Quotes About Pain

My wife divorced me because of illness. She got sick of me.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.