Roger Angell Quotes

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I'm not a pain girl. I hate pain. Don't like pain.

When you have pain, you have pain, and it's always, like, 30 percent there. Of course, there were some games when I was struggling a lot, but there are different solutions to solve it - anti-inflammatory and this kind of thing - so the pain goes away a bit.

I can't even remember playing a game without pain.

I live with very serious headaches, even though I am on daily medication.

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

All pain is the same.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

Everyone knows what toothache's like: it's one of those dull pains that just won't go away.

My back isn't great.

Adrenaline really numbs out all pain.

I've learned a lot about pain management.

I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.

I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

Physical pain is temporary.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

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

I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.