Quotes about Pain

They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.

The truth of the matter is that people are obsessed with themselves. This is often caused by the wounds they have received. When you hit your thumb with a hammer, what happens in the following days? You are very mindful of your thumb. The same is true when we are hurt; we become conscious of ourselves to such an extent that we are imprisoned in that consciousness.

The reason we don't want to feel is that feeling exposes the tragedy of our world and the darkness of our hearts.

"Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin. My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly… My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart."

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen