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Quotes About Pain

It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop--no, not only confusion but pain too.
~ Walter Mosley
THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live.
~ Walter Mosley
Hector's smile was the anticipation of another man's pain. Primo
~ Walter Mosley
The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.
~ Walter Scott
T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.
~ Walter Scott
it was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil.
~ Walter Scott
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
~ Warren Ellis
He tried to close a hand around the precious coffee but had to jerk his fingers away, sharply enough that his wrist popped painfully. Tallow wondered if the other end of the coffee machine was slurping water out of a lake in Hell.
~ Warren Ellis
You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me, and feeding and clothing me and all... -- and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to do and sometimes I just want to scream -- and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head -- I go through all this -- and then there's death ??
~ Warren Ellis
After a great deal of discussion and negotiations, I receive a telegram informing me that they are going to make an exception because I am a veteran who has become a gigantic pain in the ass.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
suffering is a part of the human condition that no one escapes in their lifetime, and that it may be more despairing for some than others.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any time.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation… they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie I told.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Words can't fix my life. Words can't give me a family. Words can't do jack. You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compared to the one in my heart.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Se podía quedar con sus brillantes ojos azules. Se podía quedar su hipócrita sonrisa y… y mi beso. ¡Eso es! Se podía quedar eso, también. ¡Jamás, jamás volvería a hablar con él!
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Guilt is the uncomfortable or painful feeling that results from doing something that violates or breaks a personal standard or value, or from hurting another person, or even from breaking an agreement or a law. Guilt thus concerns our behavior, feeling bad about what we have done, or about what we didn't do that we were supposed to have done.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
Furthermore, people like Marcus can over-estimate the degree of threat or mis-read visual cues such as facial expressions, resulting in an inability to modulate emotional pain. Imagine what will happen when he experiences a situation in early recovery that reminds him of the old trauma. For example, if his male supervisor at work gets angry with him, Marcus' brain has learned to go into a "fight or flight" pattern, which leads to another angry outburst.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
We actually have four additional choices, which we may learn as we grow older: (1) to hold it in until it gets unbearable; (2) unable to let it out, we get physically or emotionally sick, and/or we may "blow up;" (3) to blot the pain out with alcohol, other drugs or other addictions; or (4) to express the pain and work through it with safe and supportive people.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life
~ Charles Lamb
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~ Charles M. Schulz