Irvine Welsh Quotes

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

Everybody has their pain.

Suffering does not change its face.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

May new sufferings torment your soul.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

In the country of pain we are each alone.