Quotes About Pain

I want to help people with pain and stomach disorders.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

Working in a gun store is hard on your feet and your back.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

I don't know if it's unique, but I know many Korean American people of my generation who want to know about their grandparents' lives in Korea, but their family members won't tell them because it's too painful. But my grandmother is just a natural storyteller, and she very openly spoke about really difficult times in her life.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Suffering is an art.