Pain Quotes

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.

~ Grantly Dick-Read

Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.

~ Robin Hobb

...I Know it hurts. But sometimes it's the greatest things in our lives that cause us the most pain. That's why it hurts so much, because they're so important.

~ C.j. Bishop

Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.

~ Anthony Liccione

Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition.

~ Stanley Kunitz

I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.

~ Hollywood Undead

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

~ Fanny Burney

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.

~ Sarah Kane

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

~ Stephen Dobyns

My head ached. I was thinking of the pain, and wondering how it was possible for physical agony to be so intense. I had never imagined that such a torture could be endured. Yet here was I, both conscious and able to think clearly. And not only to think, but to observe the process and make calculations about it. The steel circle round my skull was closing in with faint cracking noises. How much farther could it shrink? I counted the cracking sounds. Since I took the triple dose of pain-killer, there had been two more. …I took out my watch and laid it on the table.“Give me morphia,” I said in a calm, hostile, icy tone.“You mustn’t take morphia! You know perfectly well. The very idea! And what are you doing with that watch?”“You will give me morphia within three minutes.”They looked me uneasily up and down. No one moved. Three minutes went by. Then ten more. I slipped the watch calmly into my pocket and rose unsteadily to my feet.“Then take me to the Fiakker Bar. They say it’s a good show, and to-night I want to enjoy myself.”The others jumped up with a feeling of relief.I never confessed the secret to anyone, either then or afterwards. I had made up my mind at the end of those three minutes — for the first and last time in my life — that if my headache had not stopped within the next ten I should throw myself under the nearest tram.It never came out whether I should have kept to my resolve, for the pain left with the suddenness of lighting.

~ Frigyes Karinthy

..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

~ Robyn Schneider

Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles longCoiled, one thousand miles deepEyes like candy, it has eyes like candyHard and blue, but soft as kittens feetOut of sight or in the element of lightIt could be a devil, it could be an angelWith spiders inside a vision from hellIts spine is a vertical screamSlow as concrete, blurred as a dreamFueled by inertia, depth, radius, and velocity,Its soul--a twisted wreckage of despair and painAnd the spiders inside are just praying for rainKilling time killing timeAnd praying for rainOne thousand miles deep

~ James O'barr

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

~ Paulo Coelho

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

~ Marilena Mexi

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

~ Adam Levin

Unreality cooled reality’s burn.

~ Cameron Conaway

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

~ Rita Rudner

‎If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

~ Martina Cole

I am a waning birdencased in a glass sphere;I cannot see my prison,and my cries no one can hear.

~ Craig Froman

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right.Lucy ScarboroughNancy Werlin

~ Nancy Werlin (Author)

But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.

~ Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.-Vergere

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

~ Athena Kamalei

And a rock feels no pain,And an island never cries.

~ Paul Simon

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

~ Jojo Moyes

Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it tha

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.

~ Haruki Murakami

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

~ Steve Berry

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

~ Cora Carmack

You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most.Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via dreams or by means of reading literature. It is impossible to learn from someone else's experience unless we don't assume this experience as our own's, which we can achieve only by living it anew and from scratch. We can not live our lives at someone else's expense. Only life fraught with dangers and risks and lived as your own's deserves its name. Only selfish people do not live their lives as if they do not belong entirely to them. Cowardice equals a life that you refuse to live at its fullest and at its most dangerous.

~ Martin Walser

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

~ Alice Hoffman

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

~ Emma Donoghue

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

~ Bernard Malamud

The sun rises bright and beautiful as if it feels no pain.It must not see, it must not hear, it can't possibly or it would not be able to overcome so defiantly.My bed creaks and whines when I leave it behind.I don't know why it tries so hard to hold onto me but yet I continue to try and overcome.I put on my shirt, my pants that fit me, find my socks and glue my heel back to my boot.My gloves are lost, my coat is torn but my scarf still keeps me warm and so I continue to try and overcome.Work has no pride, no place for me but I have no other place to be.My broken dreams continue to rise, my hopes continue to fade but still I try to overcome.A broken window and a gas tank on E, it's not Friday so I have to walk each day for at least another three.And so I walk while the world cries and pleas and tries to swallow me but still I continue and try to overcome.My lock on my door only turns halfway, but I don't have anything to steal anyway.My fridge is bare but my cabinet still holds three so I continue to try and overcome.The news haunts me, the weather threatens to rain down on me but another day has gone by.And I have overcome, I have overcome … I have overcome - the sun has nothing on me.

~ Jennifer Loren

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

~ James Lovegrove

Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard.

~ Daniel Handler

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

~ Albert Schweitzer