James Frey Quotes

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Sorrow can be a bully.