Quotes About Pain

Laughter is therapy for physical pain, emotional pain, and the everyday pain of life.

Life is short and full of blisters.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.

A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.

It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The elation of flying is worth the pain of sprouting wings.

This smile isn't a lack of pain. It's a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.

Tinha o coração grosso, queria responsabilizar alguém pela sua desgraça.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

The end of the world hurts like a bitch.

To the uninformed observer, the agonizing cramps in a marathon runner's calf muscles are heroic while the relentless explosions of a dominatrix's paddle against her client's bottoms are obscene and perverted. That the two victims might confront their ordeals for similar reasons, and take away similar benefits, has rarely been considered. Grant Antrews, Submissions

It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

Yet I don't think about it now like I didn't get a fair shake or something. Every family goes through their own pain, even though you might not see it on the outside. Self-pity is a weakness. I don't blame them or anybody for not having a normal life. Life isn't easy for anyone.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

An Ax was raised into the smoke filled sky while the surrounding soldiers pinned him down and stood on his hands. It took more than a dozen blows to sever each arm just below the elbows. The strangest sensation, he said, was that one minute he could feel his knuckles being ground into the asphalt by the soldier's boot and in the next he watched the man kick his arm away and he felt nothing.

A citizen who spiralled down into insanity could spend teratau in a state of confusion and pain, with a mind too damaged to authorise help, or even to choose extinction. That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace.

In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.

Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it." -Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest)

the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.