Quotes About Pain

Sometimes we can't let go of the pain because we think it's the only thing holding us together.

A crown is no cure for the headache.

There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

People think those with fibromyalgia are just faking it. Actually, they've got it backwards — we're faking being well.

I wake up tired I stay up tired I go to bed tired. I wake up in pain I stay up in pain I go to bed in pain. I wake up with hope I stay up with hope I go to bed with hope.

Fibromyalgia is a pain in the neck — and my shoulders, head, elbows, knees, back, hips, feet... sometimes even my hair hurts.

Chronic pain sufferers tend to minimize their pain to try to seem as normal as possible. We don't want to be perceived as complainers so we keep much of our pain experiences to ourselves.

Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins.

The great object of life is Sensation — to feel that we exist — even though in pain — it is this "craving void" which drives us to Gaming — to Battle — to Travel — to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

Screw up the vise as tightly as possible — you have rheumatism; give it another turn, and that is gout.

There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.

Philosophy is a first rate thing to have, but you can't alleviate the gout with it, unless the gout happens to be on some other fellow.

The gout is to the stomach, what rheumatism is to the heart.

Gouty pains do chiefly stir spring and fall.

No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization, calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, this is to irritate; this is to inflame; this duct is to convey the gravel to the kidneys; this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout: if by chance he come at a part of which he knows not the use, the most he can say is, that it is useless; no one ever suspects that it is put there to incommode, to annoy, or torment.

I've heard that having gout toe-tally sucks!

I went to the doctor complaining of pain in my foot. He told me, "Gout." I said, "But I've only just walked in!"

Funeral grief loathes words.

It was only a few months after their father's death. His loss had left a wound in Darlene's chest that felt physical, a perpetual ache.

There's a curious thing about pain or hardship. In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them — that they were alive.

Grief bores holes in our hearts & heads like a woodpecker — peck peck peck — knock knock knock You can't make it stop Eventually it flies away — but leaves pits that never fully heal

But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.