Robert Stone Quotes

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

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

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

People play with pain all the time.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

Pain is pain.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.